The Scene of the Crime: Imaging the Interior

This essay engages with historical and contemporary images to analyze their role in the producti on of interiors. Dioramas feature in this history as a modeof representati on that falls between image and interior. Looking to L.J.M. Daguerre’s diorama building, Thorne’s Miniature Rooms, and Colonel John F. Ohmer’s domesti c camoufl age, the space of the diorama is not the just that of the projected picture but is inseparable from its material and dimensional data as well as from the interior in which it is entangled. In contemporary, electronic images, representing the interior takes on a different disposition. Like the historical images that precede them, electronic images rely on the depth constructions that render them visible. However, contemporary images are always in translation and perpetual animation.

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9