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“I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture.”
- Mark Rothko
Rolleiflex 2.8E + Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm F/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100 / Tetenal rapid dev kit
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The Phillips Collection was one of the best art museums I've visited. They have a great variety of pieces and the size of the museum is perfect. Plus, they had a really well-put-together exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe that made me appreciate her work more.
An aside - this is pretty much the perfect photo to show off the capabilities of the Canon 10-22mm. No distortion corrections were done to this image. Shot at 10mm (16mm equivalent), it only shows a very slight barrel distortion, and lines are straight to the edges of the frame.
After looking at some Mark Rothko images in a book I was inspired to take a picture of a Swiss orange wall and then play with Photoshop....
On the back of an abandoned truck.
Sitting in an abandoned parking lot.
In Tucson.
Lucky me.
(Apparently I am on a red kick.)
My father was a lifelong artist, though rarely by occupation. When I was very little, he used to take beautiful photographs... though I'm not sure that I saw him use a camera again until decades later, and then just a point-and-shoot. He was a painter. A sculptor -- from tiny sculptures to multi-story public pieces. He carved wood blocks in inverse for printing. He built beautiful, simple furniture -- pieces that will last for generations and be handed down.
His art was also sometimes funny -- he once built a gorgeous full-size outhouse, complete with cedar shake roof, and had it pulled on a flatbed trailer in our town's Fourth of July Parade... throwing rolls of toilet paper, when most threw candy. After the parade, he quietly installed the outhouse in a friend's back yard in the middle of the night. One Easter we woke to our usual elaborate Easter basket hunt to find a trail of gigantic Easter bunny footprints running blocks through much of the town... we're talking footprints measured in feet and painstakingly painted down the middle of village streets in the middle of the night. (I have no idea how he didn't get arrested for that one!)
In his later couple decades, he had a real passion for several modern painters, especially Mark Rothko. A couple years ago, on our annual family beach vacation, on a day with a coming storm, my father was quite taken by the intrusion of these beach chairs into what was so evidently a Rothko, so he asked me to take a photo for him. I took probably fifty slight variants, then let him pick the one he wanted... and let him pick the processing he wanted. This slightly muted processing is what he wanted.
"When the South American line was open up Mermoz, ever the pioneer, was given the job of surveying the division between Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile." AdSE
"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."
Mark Rothko
21" X 12" @300dpi
I've done a few pieces that are based on artists whose work I've learned about. Its always interesting to me to discover their views of art. As of late, since this body of work is abstract, I've been looking at abstract artists which led me to Rothko. His perspectives are quite interesting. If you like abstract art, he's an interesting character.
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