#whitescape

[nerdofwhimsy]

For the Whitescapes Art Assignment, I took a white piece of paper outside to photograph with the white snow on my white car. Then I came inside and recorded my observations on the paper. Transcript: 

The paper looked bright and blue against the snow, a more neutral white beneath the paper. The wind* fought my ill-prepared plan, ut I managed to get some snow on top of the paper. Against the blue, it took on a slight reddish tinge. I'm sure I would have had different--and perhaps slightly more interesting--results, if I'd gone out in the day time and again around now, in the dull blue fading twilight on a stormy day, but procrastination got the better of me.

Back inside, under my incandescent light, and with no other whites around, the paper takes on a more neutral white. The splotches where it was soaked with snow, however, are no longer white at all, but a sparkling mid-gray.

Art Assignment: Whitescapes Paige Breisacher Mar 14, 2017

*and my own lack of gloves

[mouchequilouche]

And finally the last attraction of Tahua: the Salar de Tunupa (or Salar de Uyuni, for tourists...) - the biggest salt flat on earth. The view from 1500m above is weird...breathtaking...like looking into a endless NOTHINGNESS... The pure white surface is only interrupted by a few hills but and some water, making it a perfect mirror. Due to the festival and weekend, there are no cars going to Uyuni and we don't have the possibility to see the Salar from within.... Nevertheless we walk into the entrance, which is enough to get the impression of what the next 200km will look like.

[the-theatrical-typewriter]

When doing this research, I accidentally chose two objects of the same color white. So, in comparison to one another, I did not have to change descriptors in order to more accurately describe the white. The only difference I noted was that one was shiny/reflective, while the other was matte. However, this was not true between the two types of lighting I used. The first image was lit using my phone flashlight, while the second was lit with the overhead lights in my boyfriend’s house. The first is a more blue-tinted or even purple-tinted white, while the second is a more yellow-tinted white. It really is interesting how lighting can make such a big impact on color, and how within one color, there can be such variation. 

[toropiski]

Very cold and moisture in the air so everything was covered with white frost... ....................... #photos #nature #winter #frost #whitescape #worldsugarcoated https://www.instagram.com/toropisk/p/CYj4PZvs-5f/?utm_medium=tumblr

[laurynlambart]

‘Chromophobia’ notes - Whitescapes

‘There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach.’

‘Civilisation began with ornamentation.’

Dan Flavin ‘tubes of white’ different shades and tones of white alongside colours of light

‘To mistake the colourful for the colourless or white is nothing new.’

Negative hallucination: (psychoanalysts) not perceiving the visible

White things give us an uncanny sense of coldness: white teeth, white marble, white fog

‘The ideal body: without flesh of any kind, old or young, beautiful or battered, scented or smelly; without movement, external or internal; without appetites.’

‘A model of what the body should look like from within … a vacant, hollow, whited chamber, scraped clean, cleared of any evidence of the grotesque embarrassments of an actual life.’

[captaintig]

Snowy Sunday #Snow #IsItWinter #Whitescape #Ireland (at Castleblayney)

[amorfirstbysfhonn]

A #world of #selfies #mexicocity #polanco #photos #whitescape (at Plaza AntaraPolanco)

[bekirac]

Huseyin Gazi #ankara #whitescape #inthemiddleofnowhere #nanoatelier #bnw #bnwmood #bnwgallery #bnw_society #bnwminimalismmag #bnwminimalism #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotography #minimalism #mountains #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographie #photography #photooftheday #siyahbeyaz #fotograf #fotoğraf #wintertime