In Defiance of Gravity

Some ingenious tilting by Romain Laurent.

Comments

[James S]

Brilliant. The shadow on the building behind him makes it look almost Cubist.

[Jason Bontrager]

Huh. Howdedodat?

[Simen Thoresen]

From some of his other pictures one would assume trickery. Or inertia.

-S

[TimT]

Maybe he paid the models to fall flat on their faces just so he could get these in-between pictures.

These remind me of one of my favourite sculptures in Melbourne, the edge of a building that appears to have sunk at angles into the ground! Or possibly the entire city is at slightly wrong angles to the building. Anyway, I like the playful feeling of both that and these pictures too.

[TimT]

Sorry, here's the link. It's by an artist called Petrus Spronk and it's just outside the state library of Victoria, so you might be able to pull up a larger version with a quick google search.

http://www.daaag.org/who-s-who/art-and-culture/petrus-spronk/petrus-spronk-photo-images/fragment2_133-kb.jpg/image_mini

[Steve]

Isn't this what happens just before you side step into another dimension?

[Alvin Lucier]

I think he has propped his models up on a stool or similar support, which he removes later in Photoshop