Somerville, Massachusetts
Burns achieved the selective focus seen here through a technique called "tilt-shift," which involves tilting and rotating the camera’s lens in relation to the picture plane to achieve a shallow depth of field. Once the province of technically adept analog photographers, tilt-shift became much more common in the digital era through its easy application via preprogrammed "filters."
Artwork Details
- Title: Somerville, Massachusetts
- Artist: Laura Burns (American, born 1961)
- Date: 1994
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 35 x 44.1 cm (13 3/4 x 17 3/8 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1997
- Object Number: 1997.182.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Laura Burns
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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