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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Twenty Six : Using reflections to transform reality > Street crowds, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado, 2007
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06-JUL-2007

Street crowds, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado, 2007

I isolate a street of frenetic activity within the glass windows of a spa by shooting this scene as a reflection. That reflection almost looks like an old roll of film splashed against the side of a white building. (And yes, the silhouette just to the right of center is the photographer.) By shooting at least forty people within a single reflection, I was able to incongruously contrast all of that activity to the absolutely empty sidewalk just alongside of the building.

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Phil Douglis15-Jul-2007 00:03
Thanks, Tim, for seeing this image as an inversion. I completely changes the way we view it, and the way we perceive meaning. You have indeed turned my image inside out.
Tim May14-Jul-2007 22:09
I feel like you've placed this hodge-podge of people inside the spa - to let us remember what spas are for. It is almost as if you have inverted the scene. the placid spa is filled with people, the outside world is calm and gray.
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