Architecture Panoramas
Jan Dibbets
Dutch, born 1941
1971
A chromogenic color photograph that arranges a dozen related views into a grid, deliberately fragmenting a single architectural panorama to explore how sequential images shape our perception of built space.
The black-edged grid invites close reading of repeated glimpses—white garden walls, terraces, doorways, pedestals and a faint reflection—where slightly shifted angles and cropped details reveal the quiet geometry and rhythm of the site.
Part of the 1970s move toward conceptual, serial photography, Dibbets’ panorama fragments challenged single-point perspective and helped open photographic practice to time-based, measured and process-oriented ways of representing space.
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
9 1/2 × 12" (24.1 × 30.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Anonymous gift
Accession
221.2014.162
Palette
Exhibitions
