Heidi Lohr: Parallax – The Performance Paradigm in Photography

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Australian Centre for Photography
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Paddington NSW 2021
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Parallax is a simple enough problem for photography: the image you make depends on your viewing angle. But when you add the variable of the moving body in performance, the parallax factor multiplies to a point where the camera captures something no human eye will ever see in any other way.

Heidrun Lohr, the respected photographer of live performance, is famous for her active use of the camera around the stage. More than documents of a vanishing work, the images open up a whole terrain of performance photography, where the gestures and expressions of subjects from all walks of life perform a sense of identity; an identity that can be as multiple and various as the positions of the camera.