Not on display

Woodrolfe Creek, Tollesbury

Photograph
2002-2003 (made)
Artist/Maker

'My pictures represent my experiences of looking at landscape. I photograph whatever catches my eye, both distant and nearby and accumulate this information over a period of time. The negatives are selected and combined to form an image that evokes a memory of those experiences. Variations in the composition are achieved by adding or removing negatives as the picture grows. Sometimes over 200 negatives comprise the final composition. I want to liberate my still photographs from the static viewpoint and the single moment. They do not record a fixed position in time or space. They are composed in the studio not in the camera. I hope they encourage prolonged contemplation that moving film does not provide and that these accumulated compositions present an extended sense of experience in a still image that a single-frame photograph does not achieve.' – Noel Myles

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleWoodrolfe Creek, Tollesbury (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Palladium print
Brief description
Photograph by Noel Myles entitled 'Woodrolfe Creek, Tollesbury'
Physical description
Palladium print made from 96 6x45 cm negatives printed on arches platine paper.
Copy number
4/20
Gallery label
(11/09/2007-28/06/2008)
"My pictures represent my experiences of looking at landscape. I photograph whatever catches my eye, both distant and nearby and accumulate this information over a period of time. The negatives are selected and combined to form an image that evokes a memory of those experiences. Variations in the composition are achieved by adding or removing negatives as the picture grows. Sometimes over 200 negatives comprise the final composition. I want to liberate my still photographs from the static viewpoint and the single moment. They do not record a fixed position in time or space. They are composed in the studio not in the camera. I hope they encourage prolonged contemplation that moving film does not provide and that these accumulated compositions present an extended sense of experience in a still image that a single-frame photograph does not achieve." - Noel Myles
Credit line
Given by Byard Art
Object history
Previously exhibited at Byard Art and the Chappel Galleries.
Summary
'My pictures represent my experiences of looking at landscape. I photograph whatever catches my eye, both distant and nearby and accumulate this information over a period of time. The negatives are selected and combined to form an image that evokes a memory of those experiences. Variations in the composition are achieved by adding or removing negatives as the picture grows. Sometimes over 200 negatives comprise the final composition. I want to liberate my still photographs from the static viewpoint and the single moment. They do not record a fixed position in time or space. They are composed in the studio not in the camera. I hope they encourage prolonged contemplation that moving film does not provide and that these accumulated compositions present an extended sense of experience in a still image that a single-frame photograph does not achieve.' – Noel Myles
Collection
Accession number
E.2551-2007

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Record createdJune 11, 2008
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