Reading Response: After Photography by Fred Ritchin
Chapter: 4
A photo mosaic is a photo that has been cut up into 1000s of different smaller photos. I have recently experimented with different photo mosaic programs and discovered that these are very powerful programs. What they do is basically read and scans the hues or colors in the smaller photographs, then matches it up with the color in the bigger photograph, and decides which color goes where and does a pretty good job at doing it.
A great example of an artist that is doing great work with photo mosaics is Chris Jordan’s pieces called ‘Running the Numbers.’ He is best known for portraying mass consumption and waste. He feels very strongly about the green movement. A great example is his image: Toothpicks in 2008. A serine skyline depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail. His images put the problem we are having into perspective and numbers we can actually wrap our heads around.
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