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Old 6th December 2010, 09:47 PM
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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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I don't know about favourite but one I rate highly is 'Monk by the Sea' by Casper David Friedrich. I love the isolation of the monk in a vast space of sea and sky.
Trevor, you have not surprised me with that choice. An astonishing painting for its time.

My list of favourites would begin with Lascaux and probably end with Hockney, pausing a short while with Caravaggio.

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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
Trevor, that painting is very Turneresk. Have you ever produced any gum bichromates?
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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!

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Trevor, that painting is very Turneresk. Have you ever produced any gum bichromates?
No gum bichromates Clive.

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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