Guy Tillim, Piazza dei Cinquecento, Rome, 2009
Wayne Bremser, Fontanella delle Tiare, Rome, 2010
Martin Parr, il Foro, Rome, 2005
Tod Papageorge, Rome, 2009
Charles H. Traub, Rome
J. Wesley Brown
Matt Nuzzaco, Very Large Array, New Mexico
Rückenfigur (awesome Flickr group | Tumblr tag) are those photographs or paintings of a person’s back in a landscape or composition. Mr. Nuzzaco’s photograph has another layer, which exploits the photographic “mistake” of having something in the background grow out of the subject’s head.
Wondering: is there is a word for utilizing background / foreground confusion? Because you can’t see the face in Rückenfigur, I always call it something-head. In this photograph, it’s the satellite dish-head. The are of course tree-heads, pole-heads, sign-heads, etc.
Austin Kamps
Gabriela Herman, Helena in Chilmark, Massachusetts, 2013
Leila Peterson
