What Van Gogh’s Famous Self-Portrait Looks Like as a Photograph
Wow.
[Image: Tadao Cern]
Today I came across an amazing photographer. Most would recognize his work before his name. Nenad Saljic! This guy undeniably has talent. Nenad spent a long time working on his craft, putting it in the backseat to study economics. I got to study some of his compositions and I love them. The smokey feel to the mountains clouds, you can tell by his perspective that he’s not far off from his dream, Matterhorn (The Great Alpine Peak). You have to stop and really admire this guy’s journey.
Paris 1948-54
Yngve Johnson Tore
Model Airplanes, Union Station, Chicago, 1943, Jack Delano
Of all the things I hear other photographers say, this kind of thing is probably my least favourite.
Namely because it just reinforces the idea that they’re “just pictures” so who the fuck cares right? And then people on the internet see that and go “yeah, they’re just pictures, who cares” and then that sets in this idea that its alright to just do whatever you want with any photo you come across because, fuck the person who put in the effort to shoot and edit it. It’s just a picture.
Then again, he’s entitled to his opinion. But I disagree with it.
“Hey this is a nice image. I wonder who shot it. Oh wait, this is tumblr, who knows and who cares, right?”
Heinrich Heidersberger: Promenade, 1934
Stanley Kubrick. Life and Love on the New York City Subway. Couple playing footsies on a subway. 1946. (Museum of the City of New York)
Moon River: Manhattan from the Hudson River, 1946 by Andrea Feininger
Images from Italy
Photo: Italo Zannier
Dulovits Jenő: Alkonyat, 1940
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Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.
That last one is the saddest photo ever.
“What’s That?” on Flickr.
April 20, 2012
London, ON
Fanshawe College
Mamiya DSX 1000
Ilford HP5+
