Photographic Composition

Perspectives

Central

There are a dizzying number of methods for imitating the human sense of sight on a two-dimensional surface. Archaeological findings from the Stone Age reveal that the desire to achieve perspective in art has been around for tens of thousands of years. In antiquity, the Greeks attempted to establish a style of painting that allowed for the depiction of space. The Romans, whose achievements are impressively visible in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, further developed the visual arts. Nearly a thousand years would pass after that before architects and painters in Florence pushed to find new perspectives for depicting structures. ...