Archive for September, 2006

Beyond the Kuleshov Effect: Triggering the Mind’s Eye

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Much like the Japanese concept of “Ma” which Kisho Kurokawa likens to the space between spoken words, the Kuleshov Effect becomes a way of reinforcing something through the use of understatement–the whisper that demands close attention. In photography, as in other visual arts one example of this might be the use of negative space to re-contextualise positive space.