Sunday 8 January 2017

Francisco Afonso Chaves at MNAC, Lisbon

"THE PARADOXAL IMAGE" at Museu Nacional de Arte Contempornea do Chiaso, Lisbon.



I was delighted to have discovered the stereoscopic photographer and "Azorean naturalist" FRANCISCO AFONSO CHAVES (1857-1926) this week in Lisbon.

A wall text on "seeing landscape from afar":



Some images:






("Sperm Whale", c. 1890)


(An exploration of movement, similar to the experiments in photography by Muybridge)


(The images that most struck me)

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