Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started 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.”
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I'd pay more for any of these than I would for "Rhine II."
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Fantastic!
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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
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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
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Gursky has already been there and done that...
Been there appropriated that (http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=394) :-)
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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.)
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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"?
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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...
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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?
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Presumably you mean that Andreas Gursky must have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for artistic genius?
Close. But no cigar.
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So what do you mean?
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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.
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Did you try digitally painting in a deeper bluer larger Lake Eyre to ease the anxiety of the Big Dry?
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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?
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Richard Woldendorp (http://www.richardwoldendorp.com/exhibition/) takes some great images from the air.
Cheers,
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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) ;-)
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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.