A Photographic Elevation is made by moving in a line parallel to the face of the subject - walking on the opposite sidewalk of a
Los Angeles street, or crouching at the rail of a Vaporetto traveling down the Grand Canal in Venice and snapping overlapping
shots, with the camera always aimed directly at the subject on a line perpendicular to its face. Recording the images fifteen or
thirty for each Elevation takes minutes. Fitting them together in the computer into a single image takes longer, typically two or
three days of exacting work.
A Photographic Elevation is not a panorama.
A panorama is photographed form a single point, and only that part of the image directly in front of the camera lens is free
from distortion. But wherever you look on a Photographic Elevation you are always looking directly at the subject something
you cannot do in life. There is no distortion. Photographic Elevations now made possible by a combination of art and computer
technology provide a new way of viewing and appreciating the color and variety of the streets of the world.
About the images:
The images in this collection were photographed on 400 ASA Fuji Provia film, using a Minolta X-700 35mm single lens reflex
camera. The images were digitized on a Nikon scanner and combined by the artist in Photoshop on a Macintosh computer. They
were printed by the artist on an Epson ink jet printer on Epson heavyweight matte paper. Epson estimates a minimum of twenty-five
years without color change for images printed on that paper.
Larry Yust has worked in the visual arts as a set and lighting designer, a director in theater and motion pictures, and as a still photographer.