Somerville, Massachusetts

Laura Burns

1994 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Burns achieved the selective focus seen here through a technique called "tilt-shift," which involves tilting and rotating the camera’s lens in relation to the picture plane to achieve a shallow depth of field. Once the province of technically adept analog photographers, tilt-shift became much more common in the digital era through its easy application via preprogrammed "filters."

Artist

Laura Burns

Date

1994

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1997