“They’re not really photographs anymore. They’re a marriage of the technologies, the art of the camera and the art of the computer.”
—Barry Frydlender
Using both camera and digital editing technology, Barry Frydlender inserts subtle clues into his constructed panoramas that hint at their hybrid nature. In the present image, the leftmost building in the frame has a perfectly vertical wall but the adjacent lamp post is bent by lens distortion. The bag-carrying couple at center are seen twice. Two men dressed in red and orange who stride along the sidewalk at right reappear in the far left tucked behind a taxi. Frydlender’s images reward close attention, and his carefully planted “Easter eggs” present a meditation on the increasing malleability of photographic image making.
