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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: JBM on November 01, 2009, 11:54:28 pm

Title: Photo icons redux
Post by: JBM on November 01, 2009, 11:54:28 pm

Bonus points for those who can correctly identify the original photographer...

http://www.mikestimpson.com/gallery/107329 (http://www.mikestimpson.com/gallery/107329)

Title: Photo icons redux
Post by: Colorwave on November 02, 2009, 01:54:03 am

Richard Avedon, of course.   Wait, I mean Ansel Adams.  No, what I meant to say was Charles C. Ebbets.  How am I doing?  

Who would have thought, when we were playing with them as kids, that you could make a career out of shooting Lego, or that there would ever be professional Lego builders?  If I only knew then, what I know now . . .

Title: Photo icons redux
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 02, 2009, 09:21:24 am

Somehow Stimson's version doesn't give me the feeling of vertigo I get looking at Ebbets' original.

I wonder if Stimson has done Adams' "Moonrise over Hernandez", or Weston's "Pepper #30" in Lego.   

Title: Photo icons redux
Post by: JBM on November 03, 2009, 05:11:34 pm

I could only identify five of them from memory. Number seven still has me stumped...
You're right about the Ebbets original. I still shudder when looking at it.


1. Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper - Charles C. Ebbets
2. Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare - Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. V–J day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt
4. Tiananmen Square - Jeff Widener
5. Bed-In - unknown
6. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Joe Rosenthal
7. Madrid - not sure about this one but I've seen the image before
8. Viet Cong Captain - Eddie Adams
9. Monk on Fire - Malcolm Browne
10. The Walk to Paradise Garden - W. Eugene Smith
11. Bigfoot - Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin
12. Tennis Girl - Martin Elliott
13. Falling Soldier - Robert Capa
14. Moon landing - Neil Armstrong
15. Dali Atomicus - Philippe Halsman

Title: Photo icons redux
Post by: tom b on November 03, 2009, 06:43:28 pm

Quote from: JBM

I could only identify five of them from memory. Number seven still has me stumped...
You're right about the Ebbets original. I still shudder when looking at it.


1. Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper - Charles C. Ebbets
2. Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare - Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. V–J day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt
4. Tiananmen Square - Jeff Widener
5. Bed-In - unknown
6. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Joe Rosenthal
7. Madrid - not sure about this one but I've seen the image before
8. Viet Cong Captain - Eddie Adams
9. Monk on Fire - Malcolm Browne
10. The Walk to Paradise Garden - W. Eugene Smith
11. Bigfoot - Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin
12. Tennis Girl - Martin Elliott
13. Falling Soldier - Robert Capa
14. Moon landing - Neil Armstrong
15. Dali Atomicus - Philippe Halsman

5. Bed-in – Gerry Deiter
7. Madrid – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cheers,