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THE NON-LITERAL IMAGE
Starting with the in-and-out-of-focue image that is built
into lenses,
We ere at once confronted with an image that doee thinge to our
habitual visual world. There ie ean alteration, a change, something
is not es accuetomed.
In the exemple above we Can read the expression on the
boy's face as well asif it were sharp, -- perhaps better since
expression is about all that penetrstes the blur.
The in-and-out-of-focus is the basic non-literal image
from which all the ways that the camera and photogrephic materiale
alter original appearances proliferate -- wonderously.
Prom simple
tonal alter tione or letting paper texturee (such as "silk finish")
show through imege textures to deri vations such as multiple
solarizations.
