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See Dizzying Vertical Panoramic Photographs of Church Ceilings Worldwide
The photos capture the neck-straining view of church interiors in one shot.
The photos capture the neck-straining view of church interiors in one shot.
Alyssa Buffenstein ShareShare This Article
Most people are familiar with the 360° horizontal panorama feature available on their smartphones, but New York-based photographer Richard Silver splices together multiple separate photographs himself to create mesmerizing vertical panoramas of church interiors.
The photographs in the series “Vertical Churches” are a bit dizzying, but they take all the hard work out of craning your neck to see Gothic rib vaulting, shining gold leaf, or rosy-cheeked putti.
The photographer captured cathedral ceilings in Poland, Austria, China, the United States, Iceland, India, Italy, Myanmar, South Africa, and Cuba.
For most of the history of art, religious works dominated artistic production. But today, some church leaders would go so far to call contemporary art “filth and stupidity.” This series, however, is something priests and art connoisseurs alike can get behind.