Panography

The Panography is a photographic technique in which an image of several overlapping photographs is assembled. The technique can be applied manually or with includes prints with digital images in an image editing program.

Panografien show a wide-angle view can refer to a viewing angle of up to 360 degrees around the artist. Here, the specificity of the Panography is the demarcation of automatic stitching: namely, that it does not conceal its origin, but all edges and overlaps remain visible. By the technique of Panography images are expanded to the dimension of time. Processes can be visualized by that string together at Panografien image sections in Fotografierabfolge in contrast to the expression of other panoramas.

Origin

Analog Panography

Already in the 1980s the British painter and photographer David Hockney worked on a precursor of Panografien. He called his works, which were in the years 1982-1987, simply "Pictures " or " Joiners ". It was photo collages that were put together by him from multiple images ausbelichteter photo prints: Hockney initially used here just adjacent Polaroids (composite Polaroids ), and later 35mm prints ( Photographic Collages ). His motives were often scenes and places from his life, spaces, portraits.

Digital Panography

Nowadays Panografien can put together by the artist image editing programs. To this end, he invites his digital images into a file and created by virtual shifting and twisting a new digital image. Based on this idea for consumer software was programmed in recent years, with her - can be provided disassemble their photos later and with the look of Panography - actually against the idea of the frame as a whole.

Etymology of the term Panography

Since the photographs now composed graphically, a special and new type of panoramas showed coined the German photographer Mareen Fischinger in 2006 the concept of Panography that connected the words panoramic and graphics. Since then the term on the internet and also for exhibitions is used worldwide and is well known. The English designation of Panography is accordingly Panography.