Images as musical notes: Sounds, Vision, War

by gabriela on 27/09/2010

Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros, has come up with a beautiful way to convey information through images.  Add music –Bach in this case– and you have a documentary: not a narrative documentary but a powerful visual documentary. It’s called Sounds + Vision: At War.

In his own words:

The music amplifies the pictures, and the pictures amplify and clarify the music. It’s a way to get a really large amount of information in pictures and music to people in a way that is very intuitive and easy to absorb.

-Chris Hondros

You can read more about it in the NYT’s Lens blog.

There is 1 comment in this article:

  1. 28/09/2010Sergio says:

    Uhm… The problem with it it’s that music has a bunch of emotional relationships which depends of the user. I think music is too much emotional for serving as objective communication channel although effectively it can push the message.

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