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The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started by: Isaac on January 11, 2013, 01:22:21 pm

Title: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on January 11, 2013, 01:22:21 pm
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It’s easy to imagine these photos of Earth (http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2012/12/26/earth_as_art_fresh_and_inspiring_glimpses_of_our_planet_photos.html) hanging in a modern art exhibition. Taken via satellite, these images are part of a series called Earth As Art from the U.S. Geological Survey and offer “fresh and inspiring glimpses of different parts of our planet’s complex surface.”
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 11, 2013, 08:02:07 pm
I'd pay more for any of these than I would for "Rhine II."
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Walt Roycraft on January 15, 2013, 05:21:17 pm
Fantastic!
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Michael West on January 16, 2013, 09:37:52 pm


The waters resemble a Vincent Van Gogh Sky

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/behold/2012/12/earth_as_art/landsat06.JPG.CROP.article920-large.JPG

Thanks
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: elliot_n on January 17, 2013, 07:01:04 am
I'd pay more for any of these than I would for "Rhine II."


Gursky has already been there and done that:

http://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/258@@overview
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on January 17, 2013, 10:41:38 am
Gursky has already been there and done that...

Been there appropriated that (http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=394) :-)

Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: elliot_n on January 17, 2013, 10:51:27 am
True, he didn't build a rocket and launch himself into space to take those pictures.

(Not sure why you guys are so down on Andreas Gursky.)
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on January 17, 2013, 01:02:20 pm
True, he didn't build a rocket and launch himself into space to take those pictures.
Or take pictures at-all -- "Digital painting collage" ;-)

(Not sure why you guys are so down on Andreas Gursky.)
Not sure why you think I'm "down on Andreas Gursky"?
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: SunnyUK on January 22, 2013, 07:00:00 am
Beautiful imagery. Mother Earth really is a great artist!  Thank you very much for the link.

As for Andreas Gursky... I'm far more critical of the person who paid $4m for Rhein II than I am of Gursky. He may have sold his soul, but I bet it's a comfortable life, and given half the chance I'd do the same. Now if only anyone would pay that kind of money for my amateurish creations...
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on January 22, 2013, 01:11:37 pm
As for Andreas Gursky... He may have sold his soul, ...

Presumably you mean that Andreas Gursky must have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for artistic genius?
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: SunnyUK on January 22, 2013, 01:21:33 pm
Presumably you mean that Andreas Gursky must have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for artistic genius?

Close. But no cigar.
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on January 22, 2013, 03:09:32 pm
So what do you mean?
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: kencameron on February 11, 2013, 04:24:58 pm
As a private recreation, "appropriation" of screenshots from Google Earth can be fun. I used to have a couple on a wall. Central Australia is particularly rich in amazing graphics . A dry landscape manifestly shaped by water.
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on February 11, 2013, 04:43:36 pm
Did you try digitally painting in a deeper bluer larger Lake Eyre to ease the anxiety of the Big Dry?
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: kencameron on February 11, 2013, 05:34:50 pm
I don't think I had discovered Google Earth before the rains came in 2009. They have a good collection of historical images, so you can go back and see the changes. Here is how it looks now, from above and at an angle. Who needs a camera?
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: tom b on February 11, 2013, 05:54:40 pm
Richard Woldendorp (http://www.richardwoldendorp.com/exhibition/) takes some great images from the air.

Cheers,
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: Isaac on February 12, 2013, 01:02:18 pm
Who needs a camera?

Sometimes, where the lens points, where the frame cuts, does make a difference (http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190014612) ;-)
Title: Re: Seeing Earth As Modern Art
Post by: kencameron on February 12, 2013, 03:22:01 pm
Sometimes, where the lens points, where the frame cuts, does make a difference (http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190014612) ;-)
Absolutely and my comment was not wholly serious. But on Google Earth you can point the "lens" , which is a very wide range zoom, anywhere you want, from any distance and pretty much any angle as long as it is some way above.