{"id":38829,"date":"2024-11-18T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=38829"},"modified":"2024-11-18T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:44:46","slug":"degas-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/11\/18\/degas-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Degas revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fine early photographer.<\/i><\/p>\n

Some two decades ago I wrote about Degas<\/a> not just as one of the greatest painters of the 19th century but also as a fine photographer.<\/p>\n

His ‘L’Absinthe’ painting of two denizens of the late night crowd zonked out on the poisonous drink had a significant effect on my seeing:<\/p>\n


\nL’Absinthe, 1876.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

When photographing North Beach in 2013 I very much had this painting in mind when I snapped a modern version in The Saloon, one of the oldest buildings in San Francisco and a rare survivor of the 1906 earthquake and fires:<\/p>\n


\nNorth Beach Absinthe, 1913. Nikon D3x,
\n35mm f\/1.4 Nikkor AF-S.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

To learn more of Degas’s photography you can download the catalog of the Met’s 1998 show by clicking the image below, as intensely a photographic painting as you will find:<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nDegas. Place de la Concorde. Click the image for the catalog.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fine early photographer. Some two decades ago I wrote about Degas not just as one of the greatest painters of the 19th century but also as a fine photographer. His ‘L’Absinthe’ painting of two denizens of the late night crowd zonked out on the poisonous drink had a significant effect on my seeing: L’Absinthe, … Continue reading Degas revisited<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38835,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829\/revisions\/38835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}