The space within the image

The problem of point of view

Duane Michals, Things are Queer, 1973

High Shot, Low Shot

Rodtchenko, 1925

Rodtchenko, 1928

Robert Frank, 1956

Rodtchenko, Stairs, 1930

Outside the frame vs inside

Edouard Boubat, Lella, 1947

Fritz Lang, M. le Maudit, 1931 (photogramme)

Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), Femme lisant une lettre, 1662-65

Quentin Metsys, Le prêteur et sa femme, première moitié du XVIe siècle

The canvas as window

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), The Staircase Group, 1795, in its museum

location (in situ at the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts)

Diego Vélasquez (1599-1660)Las Meninas1656

Abundance

Frans Snyders, Grande nature morte avec dame et perroquet, ca 1630

Saturation: the industrial object

Andy Warhol, Soup Cans, 1968

A symbolic space : the VanitiesPhilippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) Nature morte au crâne ou La Vanité or Allégorie de la vie humaine, 1646

Oil on canvas - 28,8 x 37,5 cm

Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434