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� falling without depth [perspective] : unfalling

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[[Rosa Menkman. up to down: Tornado Alley, Lookout Mountain, H ydroelectric Power Station at Raccoon Mountain, 2113]] As of late I am using the photosynth app quite a bit ; photographing synthesized realities and dimensions, building spaces that are open to (perspective) directions. It is beautiful to me. A couple of discontinuous though/stories:  During my Accessibility [CMD+R] residency I met Cosby Lindquist , an American Photographer who uses a  self build  [ not-slit scan] rig  that stitches many photos from almost exactly the same perspective together into a collage.  Through this technique, Cosby's collages favor an objective  mechanic  view over the normally singularly 'framed' perspective of a  traditional  photographer.  Looking at these panoramas, I miss a sense of  depth of field; these  panoramic photos use the third dimension in a way that  I can't see nor understand; ...m aybe there is no depth of field at al...