Paolo FORMAGLINI1 | Filippo GIANSANTI1 | Pedro CABEZO2
(1Laboratorio Fotografico Architettura LFA, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy | 2Universitat Politecnica Valencia, Spain)
Keywords: historical photography, case study, present rephotography of the urban view, educational resource
Abstract:
The ways to connect the historical heritage to the contemporary town in the last years have included various graphical solutions, most of all based on historical photography and sometimes even graphical view painted by past artists. In the research presented here, the whole work will be based on some specific case studies, trying to define correct, easy to use, procedures to rematch a historical photography to the reality of our time. After an analysis of the existing solution for this kind of image production, the analysis of some significant tools will be operated to define how well they are aligned to the needs of this research. A significant attention will be given to the study of perspective making a clear reference to the way it influences and constructs the image. The developing of procedures proposed here will be based on the belief that a correct interpretation of the photographic language and techniques are at the base of a correct processing. It can be done not only using software solutions, but also by employing classical cameras or classical shooting strategies, for example, using view cameras and tilt and shift lenses: this will be done to read not only the simple image, but reinterpreting its construction both on picture composing techniques and the correct use of the photographic tools. The method will include an approach to understand how the historical cameras work by taking several photographs of a same scene, and, with a wide-baseline reconstruction, to avoid relative pose estimation degeneracy. The final aim of this study will be to put back in place details from the past and present rephotography of the urban view and represent it as an educational resource and experience.