Archive. Close-Up Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Mel Bochner, Transparent and Opaque (1968/1998) Fernand Léger once claimed to have tricked a cinema audience with an extreme close-up.
The audience ‘thought that they recognized a photograph of some planetary surface’. After they had spent some time discussing the image, the artist told them that it was in fact the thumbnail of the lady next to him, magnified ‘a hundred times’. EXTREME close ups reveal the art inside... The following images have been magnified up to 22 million times: Dust (containing long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woollen fibres, a pollen grain, plant, serrated insect scales and insect remains): Nylon Stockings:
Nebula. Contact Intro. Eva / Film Main Titles. Microscopic Worlds - Life that we don't see. Drift (by Max Hattler) Lighter extreme close up . CG - Cells. God of Small Things. GIGANTIC. The Known Universe. Karl X Johan - Flames (dir. cut)