Diptychs are two separate photos which might go together or might not, although they are part of the same image which is divided by a visible line in the centre of the image and occasionally the line is the centre of the page, what interests me about these are when you end up finding one diptych with two images that don't match each other and you wonder what the artist was trying to show within the diptych you are looking at and why it's like that.
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Making my own Diptychs
These Diptychs were made using my V&A and science museum photographs and the reflection photographs around school, I made two of them in a collage style so you can see parts of both photographs separately in strips, I also made two diptychs using two photographs I thought went well together and two diptychs which I swapped around the sides so one has the left of one photograph and the right of another and the other is the exact opposite.
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Luke fowler's two frame films
Luke Fowler's two frame films are photos separated by a bold black line in the centre of two images this shows the separation between two photos of near enough the same thing or two things that have nothing to do with each other, he also does this sort of separation with the page since the image on the left usually seems essential to the image on the right.
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Eisenstein's theory of montage
These images I find to be really morbid and although some don't seem to fit it's actually telling a story within the diptychs, I find this useful since one or two of my own photos are going to look slightly like one or two of these photos. As well as this most of these photos used are from films which I find unique and nostalgic since one or two of my photos in my GCSE work were taken during films and this is a technique which is not used very often.
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Brad Oliphant
Brad's photos are also very unique due to the images of different plants with reversed colours which makes the entire photo look fake although it also brings out the difference between light and dark in the picture as well as a lot of detail within the plant, while anyone could potentially swap the colours on a image it's how Brad puts the original next to the edited photo that interests me since it creates a weird and unusual diptych which is a lot more interesting to look at and it makes you wonder what else would look good with the colours flipped.
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