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The making of the digital Benini experience

Published by Paula Bray on February 10, 2011 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

This three minute behind the scenes look at the making of one of our digital experiences that we produced for our photography exhibition ‘Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography’ is a glimpse of how and why the experience was made. It features Jean-Francois, the producer of the work, talking about Benini’s photographic work and how he wanted to create the immersive experience that showed Benini’s work in a new but respectful way using rear projections and mirrors.

We hope you enjoy this video.

Video by Emma Bjorndahl, photographer
Digital experience by Jean-Francois Lanzarone, IRC coordinator
Original photography by Bruno Benini © All rights reserved

Exploring ‘Two women boxing’

Published by Paula Bray on May 28, 2009 0 Comments

This is another one of our video experiments Jean-Francois has been producing from reproductions of glass plate negatives that have been loaded into the Commons on Flickr. This short video is made up of details from this image ’Two women boxing’that comes from the Phillips photographic collection.

The original image was taken at Freshwater in Sydney in 1895. This collection of glass plate negatives was acquired by the Museum in the 1980s and appears to have been made by a Sydney based photographic studio from around 1880 through to 1920.

Photography from the Phillips Collection
Video by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-2.0 Generic
Music: "Deep pass" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)

Exploring Martin Place

Published by Paula Bray on March 14, 2009 0 Comments


Exploring Martin Place, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum.

This is another one of the video experiments that we have been showing on Photo of the Day. This one utilises an image from the Tyrrell photographic collection titled Martin Place. The original glass plate negative was photographed sometime between 1884 and 1917 and shows a very different Martin Place to what we see today. See if you can spot the man looking over the fence at something during this video experiment. What would he be looking at?

Photography by Kerry and Co
Video experiment by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
Music: "Cilantro" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-2.0 Generic

Deep in the eyes: Commons video exploration

Published by Paula Bray on March 2, 2009 0 Comments

This is the 7th video experiment that we have loaded to Flickr using one of the images from the Commons project on FlickrGroup of fifteen men posed in front of large wall’ from the Phillips photographic collection. He notes:

“15 men and children are staring at the camera. They sit or they stand in the yard of their workplace. A pile of paper in the darkness of the doorway suggests they could be working for a printing company. Their glances reach us after a long journey in the past. Their eyes have been retouched at the time, by the photographer, to whiten the sclera and to lighten their stares. Today the once nice glances have become mysterious as if the glow of life had disappear from their eyes…”

Music: "Turnabout" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)
Video story by Jean- françois Lanzarone
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-2.0 Generic

Exploring ‘View of a picnic scene’

Published by imageservices on February 2, 2009 0 Comments

This video exploration has been made using one of the images from the Phillips photographic collection titled ‘View of a picnic scene’ uploaded to the Commons on Flickr. We have been wondering if perhaps the photographer may be present in this group portrait. We believe the photographer to be Arthur Phillips and there are the initials ‘AP’ scratched into the reverse of the glass plate negative located on the billycan at the front of the image. We’d love to know how you feel about seeing the stills in this video format.

Music: "The Garden" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)
Video story by Jean-Francois Lanzarone

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic

Charles Kerry’s road movie

Published by imageservices on December 23, 2008 0 Comments

This is our fifth video experiment that we have loaded highlighting the details that we can achieve through the high-resolution scans we make from our glass plate negatives. This particular video story is made up of several images taken by Charles Kerry between 1875-1917 of roads that existed around the South Coast of NSW through the Illawarra district. Jean-Francois notes:

“Embark on a journey along the South Coast from Stanwell Park to Illawarra with Charles Kerry and his assistant. They would stop their cart on the side of the track, take out their equipment, frame and photograph a landscape. They would then pack up and hit the track again to their next location. As a collector or a cartographer, a photographer travels and on his way records the landscape of his time wondering if what he does makes any sense…”

Photography by Charles Kerry.
Music: "Journeys begin" by Torley (CC-BY-SA).

Video story by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic

Exploring ‘Wool classing’

Published by imageservices on December 16, 2008 0 Comments

This is another video experiment using an image from the Commons project on Flickr. This video is made up of many details from this image ’Wool classing’ that comes from our Tyrrell photographic collection.

Jean-Francois has produced a number of these short video stories and he gets to see the details produced when doing high resolution scans from these glass plate negatives. There are a lot of discoveries to be made from these original images. He notes:
“A bit of wool flies up in the air and reaches a beam under the roof where it gets hooked. From there it watches the men working all day, lifting, spreading, classing and packing up the wool. They stop and take the pose for a photo. The time has stopped its course, the bit of wool has stopped its flight and their faces will never grow old under the roof of the woolshed.”

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic
Music: "The efforts of weaklings" by Torley (CC-BY-SA).

Exploring Sydney streets

Published by imageservices on December 6, 2008 0 Comments


Exploring Sydney streets, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum.

This is the third video exploration of the Tyrrell photographic collection that we have uploaded to Flickr recently. This one is different to the others because it is using several of the Tyrrell images taken by Charles Kerry and Henry King as apposed to the previous video stories that were made from one still. This video story is exploring the details in the plates taken around the city streets of Sydney.

Photography by Charles Kerry and Henry King
License: Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic
Music: "Silent film" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)

Exploring ‘The Bandstand, Hyde Park’

Published by imageservices on November 28, 2008 2 Comments

A few posts ago we highlighted the first video experiment exploring ‘On the wallaby track’ to see how we could take the details from our high-res scans and let you experience these in another form. We have decided to make more of these video experiments, so here is the second one we loaded to Flickr yesterday. This video uses one image from the Commons project titled ‘The Bandstand, Hyde Park’ that comes from our Tyrrell photographic collection.

Jean-Francois remarks:

“Some lay on the lawn, some sit on a bench, kids run around and the young women walk. Some observe, some seem to listen; some talk and others have a laugh. Captain Cook from his pedestal observes this crowd but no one looks at him. It must be Sunday, it’s overcast, the fig trees are not so big and they all gather in Hyde Park. How does the music go…?”

We would love your feedback on these video stories!

Video story by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
License: Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic

A Commons Slideshow

Published by admin on November 3, 2008 0 Comments