Photograph as Performance

The photograph I chose is a Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP) piece. LAAP is a one-shot long time bulb exposure photography technique, performed additionally with movement of light. It was developed by two German artists, Jan Leonardo Wollert and Jorg Miedza.

In this project the photograph is the actual artwork and not the performance itself. The men created it by moving lights around. I like the idea of this kind of performance because it reminds me of traditional film photography. It's similar because with film photography you don't know what your photographs will look like until you develop the film, and with this performance photograph the artists do not know what the photograph will look like until the performance is over. I never thought of performance art this way and I fell like it has opened new doors for what I can do with photography.