Following from the argument made in the previous chapter, this final chapter opens with a consideration of ghost images. In a first sense, ghost images entail the problem of photographing ghosts and drifters and, with this, capturing the presence of absence and the visibility of invisibility. Here the photodocumentary tradition is recalled and reimagined and issues of photographic absence, intentionality, and surrealism are explored. In a second sense, the chapter argues, ghost images include those images that have become dislocated from their original contexts of production. Such images—a number of which the author has salvaged from trash cans and trash piles—again raise issues of lost intentionality, residual meaning, and subsequent alteration. The chapter ends by considering and advocating for gorgeous mistakes—for the magic of the accidental and the unexpected—and for mistakes as a kind of method adrift.
Stereoscopic imaging with spherical panoramas for measuring tree distance and diameter under forest canopies
