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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.

But, as Pico diGoliardi at Photo.net describes in his post “What the eye sees, the mind knows, but cannot express”, what if we take this one step further and instead use this gap as a springboard to trigger a new image in the viewer’s mind without requiring conscious thought. In other words, we juxtapose two or more unrelated images in such a way that in combination they unconsciously spawn additional images into the mind of the viewer as (hopefully) achieved through my rudimentary attempts below.

Have any other photographer’s practiced this or attempted to achieve this?

~ by John Mackay on September 11, 2006.