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This angle just happens to be similar to one of the vintage photos I posted earier...
www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/8726662216/
...so I've posted a direct comparison here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Onslow_Ford
www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&w...
Because one was dark and the other was light it wasn't possible to adjust the contrast to bring out the best detail in both figures. I did try cutting out the image of The Singer and dropping it into a darkened version of the picture. The trouble was, that made the harpstrings the same colour as the wall so they almost vanished.
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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The Singer, 1880. Mahogany, plaster, paint, gilt (1848-1903) Ny Carlsberg, Copenhagen. de Young Museum
getting enough water for the last leg on the journey through the desert to Abu Dhabi...
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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another close look to see what's going on with their favourite race camels
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
more Infos about Wilfred Thesiger and his incredible journey:
Vintage photo originally posted here:
www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/8726662216/
Modern photo originally posted here:
the sunset brings some relief from the heat and the huge effort...
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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Yes, after four and one-third years (roughly the time it would take for a beam of light from Alpha Centauri to reach Earth) Ford's superb statuette is back on display. It's now in the BP Walk Through British Art: 1890 room, close (though maybe not close enough as you'll see) to its companion Applause.
Many more photos will follow, but for now here's a teaser. And if you are the artist in the photo, could you please post your sketches of the statue here as well. Thank you.
Regular browsers will recognise this little lady ("little" as in 50% scale, and "lady" as in lost-wax cast bronze statuette) who resides in Tate Britain. In fact they'll have seen a version of this very photo before, here. This is how the photo appears in a 1908 illustrated catalogue of The National Gallery of British Art. But wait, I hear you cry, isn't the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square? Why, yes it is - but the National Gallery of British art was an annex on Millbank, founded by Sir Henry Tate in 1897 but commonly known as the Tate Gallery until that became its official name in 1932. But you knew all that, of course.
Another view of Ford's two Egyptian statuettes at a slightly awkward remove and facing at right angles from each other. If it was up to me I'd put the two cases closer together with the figures either facing each other or side by side. Maybe some day my photoshopping skills will be good enough to allow me to do that virtually.
A composite of two vintage photos showing how Ford's Egyptian statues could have been displayed back in the days when they still had their original pedestals. Tate Britain curators, please take note.
Original images at www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/8596303564/ and www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/17799087031/.
back on the streets to discover how Abu Dhabi has changed since Thesiger was here...
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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...and back into the desert
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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Here's a comparison of my two vintage photos of The Singer on its original pedestal, with size and contrast adjusted to more-or-less match. Note that the base of the pedestal is square-on in both shots, indicating that the top could rotate. I don't think anybody's ever noticed that before.
These photos were obviously taken in the same place, possibly Ford's studio in St John's Wood, or alternatively the Royal Academy, and quite possibly at the same time, which raises the possibility that shots from other angles may be lurking in some forgotten publication...
is this the road that leads to the Liwa Oasis? Should they follow the signs?
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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Another unreleased view from 2010.
I have had horrible difficulties uploading this photo. No matter how many times I tried, the png version constantly kept timing out. It's obviously a flaw in Flickr's software because there was absolutely nothing wrong with the file as far as I could see. In the end I had no choice but to upload a jpeg instead. Sigh. I'm gonna go lie down now.
by invitation they are allowed to use the special camel corridor on their way and the piggies got invited by the locals to discover the secrets on the race camel farms
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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the water was brackish but enough to carry on on their way through the desert...
love.piepenbrinck piggies following the footprints of Wilfred Thesinger in the Empty Quarter-Rub al Khalib on the Arabian Peninsula
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One of my favourite works, back on display at the Tate after more than four years.
The display case in the centre background contains The Singer's companion piece Applause.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Onslow_Ford
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Presenting the winner of Egypt's Got Talent, 2010 BC.
Seriously, this is a wonderfully detailed figure that needs to be seen from all angles, and so here they are, at least all the ones I managed to photograph in the time available. The girl's headband contains coloured stones, and the harp (which is so big she has to stand on a box to play it) has ornate gilding and real strings. (One reason for putting it in a case, I suppose - to stop kids trying to twang the strings.)
Amazingly, at some early stage in the statue's career it was given a coat of brown varnish, completely obscuring its polychrome decoration. It wasn't until the 1990s that the Tate, through painstaking research, were able to restore the statue to its original glory.
Old photos show the statue on an equally ornate column that raises the girl's face well above the viewer's eye level. In the 21st century she just has to make do with a plastic base.
The Singer was completed in 1889, more than thirty years before Howard Carter's expedition popularised Ancient Egyptian design. Ford was just a bit ahead of the game, I guess. I'm glad he was.
Yet another previously unreleased view. I know I keep (ahem) harping on Edward Onslow Ford, but this is definitely one of my all-time favourites.
JULY 2015: The Singer has been returned to public display at the Walk Through British Art: 1890 Room, close to Applause, but annoyingly sharing no meaningful spatial relationship with it. Following the closure of the Sculpture Victorious exhibition at the Tate, Pandora has indeed once more disappeared into the vaults.
LATE OCTOBER 2014: The Singer, Pandora and other works from the Tate have been loaned to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, for an exhibition called Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901 [In case anyone doesn't get it, those dates coincide with Victoria's reign], running Thursday, September 11, 2014–Sunday, November 30, 2014. The exhibition will then recross the Atlantic back to the Tate in spring 2015. The bad news: if it's a paid exhibition photography will be banned, and there's still no telling whether these lovely ladies will be given a permanent display after that or just disappear into the vaults again. Ugh.
"Hey, sis, what are you doing all the way over there? We should be together."
"Yeah, well count your blessings. At least they've finally put us both in the same room instead of leaving you locked in the basement."
One of my favourite works, back on display at the Tate after more than four years.
In this view the perspective makes her look lifesize, or even over-lifesize, but in reality she's a half-scale statuette. The sheer detail helps to sell the illusion, speaking to the artist's skill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Onslow_Ford
www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&w...
In the background is Frederick Lord Leighton's The Sluggard.
If you want further proof of the sculptor's fine attention to detail, just take a close look at the Singer's mouth. She actually has a pair of front teeth. (Hey, that's what *I* wanted for Christmas!)
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The Singer directly faces her companion piece Applause ( www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/4929552753/ ).
Available light portrait, the AF-D nikkor 35mm gives wonderful bokeh, and seems to light up the subject....
Mijn zoon speelt, improviserend, liedjes op de achtergrond...
Ik was gisteren weer voor de "Garmer en Thesinger" actief... Deze mooie molen:
www.flickr.com/photos/pwsonline/2737388387/
... is na een zeer ingrijpende restauratie (hij was behoorlijk verrot) op 2-7-2011 weer dienstvaardig opgeleverd, hij werd dus met enig vertoon weer officieel geopend...
Kortgeleden heb ik deze 35mm - lens aangeschaft, en ik vind 'm geweldig!!!!
Hij komt tegenwoordig nauwelijks meer van mijn camera af...
Het licht hier, komt van een klein molenraampje links buiten beeld, (geen flitser)...
Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 35mm F2
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