Image study on the relationship between ornament
and photographic iconicity
The most transparent of all media, photography, serves as the
point of departure for an idiosyncratic metamorphosis, in the course
of which a summer field gradually loses its mimetic character.
It becomes clear that several fundamental parameters of ornament,
such as repetition, lead to an increasing self-referentiality.
In summarizing this examination, it would be possible to say that
the self-referential character of ornament resists a complete
incorporation into decorative contexts.
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