6/15/2023 0 Comments World map actual sizeActual Size! is an homage to Borges’s wild but serious idea, showing us new ways to consider what a photograph is, and what it can be.Īspen Mays, Dodging Tools, 2013. Another way to represent the actual sizes of countries is to represent them as rectangles. The interactive map allows users to search for a country and then compare its actual surface area against a Mercator projection map, one of the most popular and yet most inaccurate maps of our world. Light blue is a map as we know it, and dark blue is each country’s actual size. ![]() Of course, the map was useless, and the inhabitants took to living on it as it disintegrated. Fortunately, a new online map, The True Size Of, is here to set the record straight. In 1946, the renowned writer Jorge Luis Borges described a society that wanted a map of its land so detailed that it eventually covered the land itself. Works by Jeff Wall, Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Aspen Mays, Tanya Marcuse, and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers. Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. In order based on size they are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. You may also see the seven continents of the world. Conceived especially for ICP’s unique double-height gallery, it is a rethinking of the fundamental qualities of this perplexing and elastic medium. A map of the world with countries and states. How big can a photograph be? From postcards to giant billboards, they are almost any dimension, but what happens when they are the very same scale as their subject matter? A photo of a bus the size of a bus? An actual-size image of Muhammad Ali’s fist? Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale is a playful yet philosophical exhibition that offers viewers a diverse group of images that all share the same dimension as life itself.
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