Knotwork

'The close-up thus functions as a means of what the Russian Formalist critics called 'ostranenie' or 'defamiliarisation', in which art strips the scales of familiarity from the eyes to make us look at the world afresh.'
Nicholas Tredell



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Shooting Footnotes:
I set the dancers the task of moving towards the camera on a long diagonal, with the result that the nearer to the camera they got, the less familiar the body appeared. Dancers are Dominique Bulgin and Isobel Cohen.