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Truman Brewery Parking. London. Voigtlander Bessa R3A with Nokton 40mm SC. Kodak Tri-X at 1600. October 2010.
I took this a to record this piece out outdoor art, etched from plaster .... but I was happy to have a human element in the shot.
I later found out, by chance, that it wass created by this guy, Alexandro Farto.
alexandrefarto.com/#277109/Walls
He has an interesting method of ‘printing’ large scale portrait photographs onto walls. Instead of using paint, he scratches paint away. Starting with a guide painted onto the wall using a stencil, Farto carefully scratches and chips paint and plaster away from walls using a jackhammer, pick, hammer, and his hands. His giant photos can be seen on abandoned buildings in cities around the world, including Moscow, London, and NYC.
if you can't see it...
it says i love you.
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unedited.
by the way, as you can see, etch-a-sketch-ing diagonal lines are HARD. VERY HARD.
I have always enjoyed seeing acid etched glass in windows and pubs have been a great source of examples. These days the selection is greatly reduced through unsympathetic modernisation or maybe just accidental or deliberate breakage by the local philistines.
This well known Macclesfield watering hole sports a particularly fine personalised example. Now I need to dig out my books on Macc pubs to identify which brewery was responsible for it. Robinson's now provide the ale but they will have obtained the pub through a buyout at some time in the past.