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No, not the planet.
Everyone knows this one:
Botticelli. Venus, 1486. Uffizi, Florence.
And here’s today’s version:
Towel advertisement, 2008
Maybe not as powerful a rendition as with that Raphael but a good effort nonetheless, the towel replacing the hair. Notice how the towel has been cleverly sculpted to imitate the shell in the original.
And if you are […]
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Accidental lighting.
Light pools. Lumix LX-1, 1/50, f/4.9, ISO 80
This building in San Francisco’s charming North Beach neighborhood is being patched up but all I could see were rays of light falling on the wall. Plus, of course, a touch of Bonnard in that strangely inclined table.
Pierre Bonnard. The dining room in the country, […]
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Another neo-Hopper.
In North Beach, San Francisco. Lumix LX-1, 1/50, f/4.9, ISO 80
I actually had to use the LCD screen to frame this, as the lens was zoomed to maximum, invalidating my glued-on optical viewfinder.
A recurring theme for me is the loneliness of the big city, crowded as it may be. You have to love the […]
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Scenes in San Francisco.
The master is everywhere to be seen.
Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Lumix LX-1,1/160, f/4, ISO 80
Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Lumix LX-1,1/500, f/4.9, ISO 80
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A painting that would not exist without photography.
In 1980 I had just moved to New York. Dead broke. But that didn’t stop me from making my first visit, the first of many, to the Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street with but one goal in mind. To see the greatest […]
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The Renaissance lives!
The Great American Corporation has many herd instincts, including mind-numbing group get-togethers and a love of flying that probably accounts for $20 per barrel of oil. Two of the many things I am delighted not to have to do, having left this kind of organization years ago.
However, I got a haunting reminder […]
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Our boy is six
For the annual portrait of our son Winston, I decided to try Vermeer lighting this year. There is little new under the sun when it comes to portraiture. Winston is six years old.
Vermeer used window light often in his portraits, with th