David Hilliard

Ok, maybe not diptychs, but he's combining images in beautiful ways which is at the heart of what this blog is about.





you can see more of David's work here

Allan Sekula

This is one of my favorite diptychs.



From Allan Sekula's Titanic's Wake 1998/2000.
Portrait of the painter Lubov Khoudyakova in her studio, Novorossiysk
25 x 68 in. (diptych)

you can see more of Allan's work here

(safety) by Suzanne Goldish

The following diptychs are from a series called (safety). From the very beginning, I saw this project as a portrait project. The people in these photos take pills every day. They rely on these tiny, mysterious objects, hoping that they will relieve their suffering, make them healthier, help them sleep, or prevent disease. I took portraits of my subjects in and around their homes to try to express how personal this need is, how private the idea of illness and dependence on medication. But the pill is a main character in this relationship as well. The pill takes on incredible responsibility. The pill has a lot to live up to. So I created portraits of the pills as well. The resulting diptych pairs the two partners in this game. In a way, these two players are equals, two halves of a co-dependent relationship. But in another sense, the pill holds the power. Most people do not know how their medication functions, do not even know of what it consists. Yet they ingest it willingly, place their undying faith in the unknown world of medicine. And the pill has the upper hand. Sometimes it will help. Sometimes it will harm. Sometimes it will never let you go.





you can see more of Suzannes work here

Wikipedias answer to the diptych

A diptych (pronounced "dip-tick" IPA: [ dip'tik] (or US: [ 'dɪp.tɪk ]) from the Greek δίπτυχο [ ði'pti.xo ] di- "two" + ptychē "fold") is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, types existing for recording notes and for measuring time and direction. The term is also used figuratively for a thematically-linked sequence of two books.

It is in this form that the mention of "diptychs" in early Christian literature is found. The term often refers to official lists of the living and departed that are commemorated by the local church. The living would be inscribed on one wing of the diptych, and the departed on the other.


A diptych is also a type of icon whereby two panels are joined together with a hinge, so that they may fold together for protection when travelling, and then be unfolded for veneration when one's destination has been reached. Such diptychs are also called "travelling icons".
second thoughts: (I should have called this blog Travelling Icons)

The other form was a portable sundial:

interesting

Roscoe

Lucy

My first time

Hi There,

So, I was thinking about starting a blog for a while, but never got around to doing it, or coming up with a good framework for the blog. But today at lunch, I was talking with my friend Caitlyn about blogs in general and how inspiring they are etc., etc., and decided today would be the day I would start mine. When it came time to decide what my blog was going to be called, that was when I had to really make a decision, my least favorite thing to do. So, at first I thought I would make this blog devoted to a new portrait project I'm working on. Then I decided to make it primarily about diptychs since one, they are a part of my new project and two, diptychs are a new way of looking at images for me in my own photographic practice. So, here it is. A blog devoted to the diptych form. Welcome!