With photographs, reference is physically preserved.
While at Watson Lab, Lentz also designed and built electromechanical and computer-interface automation features for the Star Measuring and Recording Machine, used on astronomical photographs (References below).
A two-line pitch about a used car could immediately link to the seller's Web site, complete with photographs, references and details about the car's maintenance record.
On these photographs, facial reference lines were drawn to create a smile frame.
Longo used his "Men in the Cities" photographs as reference for his drawings.
From him too, I learned that designing a play is a process of discussion, anecdotes, sketches, photographs and reference books; that you have to keep asking, "What's this for?" and "What does this mean?"; and that a designer needs to be an architect, engineer, painter and sculptor.
Using photographs for reference, he would sketch the insects from different positions before he started carving.
This resulted in six photographs: the reference image with no black triangles and the other images with increasing sizes of black triangles, using 0.5-mm increments (0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 mm) (Fig. 3).
"I used a ton of photographs as reference".
The results are photographs that reference blackness through more apparent connections and less obvious juxtapositions and sometimes contradictions.
