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> For example, here’s Turner’s High Street, Oxford and a photograph from the same spot, taken 200 years later Those are not from the same spot. The painting is
by leni536 5y ago
> For example, here’s Turner’s High Street, Oxford and a photograph from the same spot, taken 200 years later
Those are not from the same spot. The painting is from further back, and captures a narrower field of view.
- cpcallen 5y agoYes, exactly. You need only look at the angles of the crenellated roof of the tower on the left. While the kinds of photographic manipulations that the article ends up discussing are technically and artistically interesting, almost everything else discussed seems to be based on a fundamental misapprehension about what is really going on.