photographie

Monday, February 1, 2010

Picasso's Third Dimension

here's a beautiful portrait that Gjon Mili took of Picasso drawing his signature Bull in 1949. the photograph is titled "Picasso's Third Dimension" and was part of a series of photographs Gjon Mili created using flashlights. he called them "space drawings". Mili achieved this effect by opening the shutter in total darkness to capture only the light emitting from Picasso's flashlight, and then using a quick flash to capture Picasso and the background.

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photos of french people

krecently blogged a set of photos taken in and around les halles, paris's legendary open air market, in 1962. the whole set is worth checking out...but the two below are hands down the picks of the bunch. i really like the technicolor richness of the colors in the one below (the butcher in the center almost looks painted in), and the way that ray of light is captured in the second is just spectacular.


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