What
dancing
and
photography
has in common is the ability to say something in only one moment. The dancer does this with one move while the photographer captures a moment. But what happens if - with the help of photography – the pre-event and the outcome are also in one picture with the given moment?
We present the arch of the motion, the whole length of the action in one image that combines different techniques thus creating something unusual, something exciting. In 2010
Zsuzsa Jónás
staged
Visszavonhatatlan
at KET and the concept for the promotional material was to show the time passing on the photographs.
Dániel Dömölky
reached back to Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s multi-flash technology to achieve this. This lighting technique is very common nowadays – basically it means that during one exposition the light source flashes multiple times thus more than one moment will be on a photo due to the strobe effect.
For the sake of precision he didn’t use stroboscopic flash but he shot multiple photos during the whole length of the motion that he later merged into one image. The dancer’s task was to execute the motion much slower and with extreme precision. This kind of manual work required the best of the dancer and the photographer as well. In the past five years Dániel Dömölky worked together and experimented with numerous artists, and this technique resurfaced in his work from time to time. Now, as it is the 15th jubilee season of Bethlen Gallery, all of these pictures will be at display at the exhibition titled
M.U.L.T.I.
