The Digital Eye Blog #2

From this reading I really enjoyed Paul Berger’s image “Warp and Weft Ground,” for the interesting concept it created.  I think that it is specifically interesting because when in a forest it is easy to get lost  and this image shows the identicalness of a person’s surrounding in a wooded area.  I also think that it has a repetition factor to it but the images are all parts of a different scene.  A line from this reading that I particularly liked was “digital images such as these challenge one of the oldest pictorial traditions in the history of art: Renaissance perspective.”  This line begins a paragraph about how the Renaissance perspective in paintings can be related to analog photography.  This kind of perspective is the one point perspective but due to digital imaging is challenged because it “offers new ways in which the three-dimensional world can be rendered on the two- dimensional surface of a picture plane.