Thursday, February 05, 2009

SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason

I tagged along with a friend who was on a mission to check out a gallery opening at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason. The works I liked the most were Ari Salomon's photographic panoramas of scenes of urban Japan. Mr. Salomon creates them by digitally stitching together photos taken on a rotating tripod. The coolest ones have the panorama extending vertically instead of horizontally, so the view starts at your feet, goes up overhead, then back down on the view that would be behind you.

2 comments:

ari said...

thanks for the post.
i uploaded one of the big vertical panorama's on the gigapan website - you can zoom all the way in and leave notes on the image:
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=16349

-ari-

Axel Feldheim said...

Cool, this is one of the ones that I liked so much. Thank you for taking the time to chat with me at the gallery as well.