With all the cameras and smartphones out there, it’s no surprise that, once in a while, someone captures a truly bizarre once in a lifetime photo. Whatever you want to call them – forced perspectives, optical illusions or pictures taken at just the right angle – they are brilliant and hilarious because they totally twist your perception of what is real.
Some of these pictures make use of forced perspective – using their perspective to make objects of sometimes radically different size or composition seem related. Others are more like optical illusions, capturing confusing lines or environmental coincidences that twist your senses. The most important common element, however, is that somebody took a picture in the right place at the right moment.
Risky Moments
How cruel or not are the people who laugh at a photo of funny accident?
Perfect Timing
Feng Du “Tao Liu”
“Our laughter expresses feelings of superiority over other people or over a former state of ourselves.”
Xue Li “Perfectly Timed Photos”
“Since the last decade of the 19th century, time needed in taking and processing a photo has continuously been shortened, allowing instantaneity to be one of the key features of photography.”
Stéphanie Labie “I laughed. Am I a Monster?”
“Are we a bunch of heartless silly students laughing at the misfortune of others?“
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