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A series on various historic and prominent figures and how would they see the world if they were photographers.
Although he died almost 40 years before the Kodak camera was invented it may be an interesting attempt to put a man like Edgar Allan Poe behind a lens. He would have used a Daguerreotype which was widely used in the 1840s.
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How would Obama see the world through a lens? What would his images look like? We know Barak Obama as a politician, civil rights attorney and as the 44th president of the United States.
As a photographer he would perhaps go into two directions; As a social documentary and as a landscape photographer. Let’s start with the social documentary approach as it is more obvious considering his achievements and life directions.
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How would he present his untouched English countryside through a lens?
Constable‘s world was a world of the industrial revolution that changed every aspect of life and he was deeply concerned about what the future will bring to the country landscape. We can feel the nostalgia in his untouched English countryside paintings, mainly from Suffolk and Salisbury.
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How would Nietzsche approach a scene? Would he predominately be a color or a black and white photography person? Would he extract the values from details within a scene or would he the entire frame be viewed as a whole? Too many questions for subjective fictional answers, nevertheless as a part of a series it may be a fun experiment.
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What would his photography look like?
The poet and novelist with works like Steppenwolf and Siddhartha would likely have been involved in experimental conceptual work.
When thinking about the color yellow, we immediately think Van Gogh or Gustav Klimt’s golden yellow.
Who else used yellow pigments in such a powerful and bold way? But how does yellow translate into photographic terms?
Continue reading “Bold Yellow.”How can one even describe a color like red?
To us today, the color red is more than just a color. It is ubiquitous to urban explorers. it is on billboards, incorporated in brands, flags, traffic lights, on alert signs, it is even on women’s lips around the world.