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Put most simply: “Seeing is Believing”. Coined by the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle in his lectures On Heroes (1841), the term has been adopted by modernist and post-modernist commentators on the primacy we give to seeing.

Wild rails and nervous nystagmus

May 28, 2013by jamesmmcardle 2 Comments

*The research for this blog post contributed to a paper The Liminal Wilderness of Railway Margins that I delivered on June 27 2013 at Cultures of the Suburbs. The ‘Cultures of the Suburbs International Research […]

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Autobiographical, Memory, Vision and Perception, Visuality

A secret is out!

May 8, 2013by jamesmmcardle 1 Comment

Re- photography is hot. The change in the medium to digital has made accessing archives of film and paper seem more urgent or attractive. I have posted before about Mark […]

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Invention, Vision and Perception, Visuality

Silver Eyes: see for yourself!

May 1, 2013by jamesmmcardle 2 Comments

Consider a claret glass; a transparent container whose spherical surfaces clumsily distort what we see through them. Fill it with water and instantly it becomes a lens in which we […]

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Invention, Vision and Perception, Visuality

…and through father’s eye

April 28, 2013by jamesmmcardle 4 Comments

(James) Brian McArdle has come up incidentally in some recent email exchanges with a public gallery director/photography historian, interested in my father’s work because Brian was editor of Walkabout magazine through […]

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Autobiographical, Memory, Vision and Perception, Visuality

In another’s head

April 18, 2013by jamesmmcardle 2 Comments

What is it like to look through another’s eyes? There’s current interest in the photography of Mark Strizic (see past post) as a documenter of 1960s Melbourne. Fifty years ago […]

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Book review, Critique, Vision and Perception, Visuality

From the corner of your eye?…

April 7, 2013by jamesmmcardle Leave a comment

Here’s an interactive exercise to try. Take a look at the diagram. You will recognise that it is a checkerboard pattern with severe pincushion distortion, like the lens test result […]

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Critique, Ernst Mach, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Evanescent

March 12, 2013by jamesmmcardle 1 Comment

Featherlight is from a new series I will show during the upcoming (this Friday) Castlemaine State Festival 15-24 March 2013. These renew my childhood delight and fascination with the projected image. For […]

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Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Nude Ascendant

March 7, 2013by jamesmmcardle 9 Comments

February 15, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the opening of the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show arts fair which brought Modern art to New York. Francis Naumann Fine Art marks […]

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Critique, Memory, Photography and Cinema, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Everything?

February 14, 2013by jamesmmcardle 2 Comments

The advent of photography and how our burgeoning, and now ubiquitous, use of the medium has changed, well, everything, is the theme of essays in  Photography Changes Everything recently published by the Smithsonian Institute. […]

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Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality
Candace Breitz Rainbow Series #10, 1996 Cibachrome Photograph 152,5cm x 101,5cm

Suffer Breitz’ children

February 13, 2013by jamesmmcardle 2 Comments

Robert Nelson in his comprehensive February 13 review of Candice Breitz’ exhibition The Character at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne (until March 11) is fairly well disposed to what might be quite […]

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Exhibition Review, Uncategorized, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Another First Photo

February 2, 2013by jamesmmcardle 1 Comment

  It’s probably rare for children these days not to have made a photograph, or a great many of them if they have access to a phone camera, before the […]

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Autobiographical, Memory, Uncategorized, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Call for artists: self-portraits and death, mortality, identity and the self.

January 27, 2013by jamesmmcardle Leave a comment

PhD candidate Rebecca Louise at Deakin University issues this Call Out: Photographers are invited to apply to be included in an upcoming photographic exhibition, TRACES to be held in Melbourne. Inspired by […]

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Autobiographical, Exhibition Review, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Perspective blown up

January 21, 2013by jamesmmcardle 6 Comments

Jeff Wall‘s display lightboxes contain some weird perspective. The celebrated Canadian is showing at NGV at Melbourne’s Fed Square (till March 17, 2013). I regret was not well enough to attend the […]

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Autobiographical, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

X-Ray Vision, or Concentration?

January 14, 2013by jamesmmcardle 1 Comment

Mark Changizi has been producing papers since 2008 around a theory of the function of human binocular vision. It is expressed in his The Vision Revolution in an engaging Chapter […]

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Critique, Ernst Mach, Stereoscopy, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Perceptual photography

January 13, 2013by jamesmmcardle 1 Comment

This blog promotes perceptual or ‘optical’ photography as a parallel stream to ‘subject-based’ photography. There is continuous, if often submerged, history behind this stream, dating back to Julia Margaret Cameron’s […]

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Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Mark Strizic Biography

January 9, 2013by jamesmmcardle 4 Comments

Mark Strizic, who recently died (08.12.2012), migrated from Croatia in 1950 and became a widely published architectural and industrial photographer, portraitist of significant Australians. He taught photography at tertiary level in Melbourne from […]

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Photography and Cinema, Uncategorized, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Fly’s-Eye View

January 3, 2013by jamesmmcardle Leave a comment

FlyVIZ, is described in a 2012 paper by ESIEA – INSA group (consisting Jérôme Ardouin, Anatole Lécuyer, Maud Marchal, Clément Riant, Eric Marchand) as ‘A Novel Display Device to Provide Humans with 360° […]

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Uncategorized, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Positive, negative and ‘screen’ image…manifested in the Renaissance

December 27, 2012by jamesmmcardle Leave a comment

I just read Amy R Bloch‘s essay ‘Donatello’s Chellini Madonna, light and vision’ in Renaissance Theories of Vision. Not being a Renaissance scholar I was attracted to this title Renaissance […]

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Book review, Critique, Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

We may one day see in infra-red – New Scientist

December 7, 2012by jamesmmcardle Leave a comment

Marco Garavelli at the University of Bologna in Italy says that in the far future, “one could dare to foresee mutations in visual receptors that extend our ability to see […]

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Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

Introduction

March 18, 2012by jamesmmcardle Leave a comment

How do we see? How do we ‘pay attention’ visually? Why do we have two eyes? What is camera vision? Here you will discover, and be invited to participate in, […]

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Vision and Perception, Visual Illusion, Visuality

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