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a light painting | a light painter
'Drawn by Light' is a superbly curated photography exhibition at the National Media Museum in Yorkshire and runs until 21 June 2015. I wanted to give it a heads up if you're in the area.
There are about 200 remarkable prints on display going back to the birth of this art form from many famous and some not so famous greats of photography.
The greatest surprise, sprung at the end, is the image that compresses time above all others. Projected on a large light box is a shot of a girl with lavish strawberry blond hair modelling a scarlet coat on some far-flung beach - she is the poster girl for this exhibition, captured in my shot above.
As the girl raises her face to the dawn light, the sun catches the soft freckles of her radiant complexion. The colour photograph of the girl was taken by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman more than a century ago. The girl and the soldier were on that beach together in 1913 - a year before WWI - but the moment is today.
Her name - Christina.
Here is a link with some more photographs of her
mashable.com/2015/04/23/autochrome-photos-ogorman/
I included the man with the camera for purposes of juxtaposition only - he is not the main subject - and to draw a link to how we are all still painting with light to this day.
a light painting | a light painter
'Drawn by Light' is a superbly curated photography exhibition at the National Media Museum in Yorkshire and runs until 21 June 2015. I wanted to give it a heads up if you're in the area.
There are about 200 remarkable prints on display going back to the birth of this art form from many famous and some not so famous greats of photography.
The greatest surprise, sprung at the end, is the image that compresses time above all others. Projected on a large light box is a shot of a girl with lavish strawberry blond hair modelling a scarlet coat on some far-flung beach - she is the poster girl for this exhibition, captured in my shot above.
As the girl raises her face to the dawn light, the sun catches the soft freckles of her radiant complexion. The colour photograph of the girl was taken by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman more than a century ago. The girl and the soldier were on that beach together in 1913 - a year before WWI - but the moment is today.
Her name - Christina.
Here is a link with some more photographs of her
mashable.com/2015/04/23/autochrome-photos-ogorman/
I included the man with the camera for purposes of juxtaposition only - he is not the main subject - and to draw a link to how we are all still painting with light to this day.