Our group went to Ricoh Photo Gallery Ring Cube. The
gallery is located in Ginza. It is managed by Ricoh, a maker of
office automation equipment and cameras. The gallery consists of two
floors. As the name Ring Cube shows, the shape of the floors is
circle. On one floor, are many kinds of cameras made by Ricoh
are displayed. We can know the history of their products through the
showing...
We saw the show which was called “Parallelismo”. The photographer
of this show was Tomoyuki Suzuki. Mr. Suzuki was born in Tokyo
in 1963. He studied architecture in university and worked as architect before
he became photographer. When he worked as architect, he found the way of
“Parallelismo”, as the best way to represent scenes, especially a row of houses
and streets accurately on paper. I had never seen such unique pictures
before. All photographs in “Parallelismo” had a narrow and long shape. They
look like as if they are each one picture, but actually, each of them is made
from many pictures.
Usually, we think picture is an image which was cut out a part of
scene from whole seen. But in “Parallelismo”, Mr. Suzuki tried to take whole
scene into one picture. Then, he tried to take pictures while he was moving
little by little and united those pictures to make one. Although it is
difficult to unite and arrange many pictures to resemble in one picture, he can
do it. Because he studied architecture, he knows about structure of buildings
and knows how to put things together. So he can make one whole scene from many
pieces of scene. In one picture, Mr. Suzuki started taking the street
from the left side in the daytime because on the left side, the sky is lighter
than right side. And two street lamps in left side are not lighted. The right side
of this picture was taken in the evening because the sky is darker than left
side and street lamps in right side are lighted. It is so beautiful that the
sky gets dark and street lamps are lighted gradually. If this is not
“Parallelismo” picture, it is impossible to take those transitions in one
picture. “Parallelismo” enables not only to make one whole scene from many
pieces of scene, but also enable to describe time flow in one picture. I think
this is the most appeal of the way of “Parallelismo”...
Before Parallelismo was invented, it was impossible to take a wide
picture like the ones on display. Even if you move your camera, you
cannot take a picture well. The three-dimensional world is dominated
by perspective. As Leonard da Vinci showed in The Last Supper, a
vanish point is only one in each picture. That is the
problem. If you move your camera, the pictures will be different
images that have different perspective, and the relations of each other's
perspective will fall into disorder. You also cannot make a complete
picture even if you only line the pictures up in a row. Parallelismo
solves this problem. This technique needs software named
Photoshop. First, you take pictures that become one of the sections
of a panoramic photograph. Second, you correct the distortions of
the pictures and join them with Photoshop. In this way, such a
natural panoramic photograph is produced.
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