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Some time ago I asked the question about what is your favourite image. Can I now take that to a different stage by asking you to imagine you exist before the invention of photography? In such an imaginative senario, what would be your favourite painting or drawing? I believe the answer may help in developing photographic aspirations within the multifarious nature of halogen applications, or am I talking bullshit?
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I don't know about favourite but one I rate highly is 'Monk by the Seashore' by Caspar David Friedrich. I love the isolation of the monk in a vast space of sea and sky.
http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/...-Seashore.html
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My list of favourites would begin with Lascaux and probably end with Hockney, pausing a short while with Caravaggio.
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Any self-portrait by Rembrandt....
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Some time back I would have said that I favoured the paintings of Canaletto for their stunning detail. After becoming a member of the National Trust some years ago, I visited Ickworth House and in it I saw a painting by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. I, along with several others, stood admiring it for quite some time. It took my breath away. I had never heard of her before. Apparently she specialised in portraits, and she certainly had a way of bringing them to life. I'd love to be able to do that with my photographs.
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I'd go for Canaletto and Vermeer. They were painters who used cameras well before the invention of photography.
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Hang on fellahs...Clive, Casper David Friedrich's paintings are nothing like Turner's! And Sandeha, I could have sworn Hockney came after the invention of photography!
Alan |
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I saw a wonderful exhibition of Friedrich's paintings in 1972 at the Tate some years before I got into photography and I think his wide open landscapes, especially those depicting solitude, hit an underlying chord with me.
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Give me a Constable sky any day.
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