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Geneva Switzerland
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Artistically, the idea is to transform the scene into a new 'structure'. It is part of a study of how you would see the world without a traditional horizon being horizontal. Most of the pictures are taken from the ground, the photographer is laying on his shoulders. Each angle is giving you a specific 'structure', thus a new art piece.
Interesting is that I used the shiny surface of the bronze to let reflect the (shortened) Twin Towers.
The picture, which has been taken in August 1999, at noon time, builds the sun and the photographers shadow into the picture. All fotos are genuine.
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Roger Reiss, born 1944, in Zurich, is living in Geneva Switzerland
Author, Artist, Photographer.
On August 1999, during a longer visit to New York, Roger Reiss, his wife and his daughter visited the WTC Plaza. While the daughter went up to the roof of the Twin Towers to enjoy the scenery of Lower Manhatten Roger Reiss took a series of pictures of the square, including the intriguing shiny bronze “Ideogram” of the sculptor James Rosati.
Each picture is taken with a fisheye lense (180° sphere) and this, from a different point of view, respectively angle, by always integrating the unusual “exterior lines” of Rosatis sculpture, staged in the greater surrounding of the Twin Towers. Without retouching the original picture the result is a total transformation of the classical view of Rosatis sculptor. The original remains hardly recognizable, as such artistically a new composition is created.
“Ideogram” has been inaugurated in 1972 on the WTC Plaza. No trace of it was ever recovered in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and collapse of the Twin Towers buildings.