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mansionmedia simon knight (a group admin) says:
27 May 09 - Slow Growing But Special : Since 6th April, 2007
From 27th May 2009 submissions will go into a queue for review first.
Testing of the boundaries of what 'making strange' may mean very much welcome.
Please do think before posting in which way the image posted may relate to Ostranenie / Verfremdung.

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good idea ed ed 1 53 months ago

About making strange (ostranenie)

The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important." Shklovsky, " Art as Technique",

by Craig Raine
Saturday January 26, 2008
arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2246976,00.html
Russian avant-gardist Alexander Rodchenko claimed that photography could 'leave Rubens behind'. Through patterns and unusual viewpoints, his compositions make the viewer see familiar scenes in a different light.

Simon Watney, “Making Strange: The Shattered Mirror,”in Thinking Photography, ed. Victor
Burgin, MacMillan Press, 1982

" *ostranenie* (alienation, estrangement; *Verfremdung* in German) "

http://www.flickr.com/groups/making-strange_ostranenie/

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