I like it too... (speaking of a centered image, heh).
Yes it is, but, the color really caught my eye. It is beautifully centered.
Who took the photo? I like eveything about it. It has great texture, I can almost feel it.
I don't know.
To find it, I looked Brancusi up on Google (why Brancusi? I dunno) and got to this page
http://images.google.com/images?q=brancusi&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
and from there tried
http://www.ici.ro/romania/
and am stuck at that point.
I agree the photographer really knows what he is doing.
Hmmm, I might need to look further in the web. (anything to keep from doing my tasks..)
I saved the link in my favorites to check it out too. I also saved the last links you posted in JLN thread to carefully study later.
I've gotten as far as finding a site for a photo in his studio listed in google, but it won't open.
I better stop before I spend all day, but I'm betting it's a famous photographer.
Oh, and the stamp is a tangent... forget it.
ossobuco wrote:I've gotten as far as finding a site for a photo in his studio listed in google, but it won't open.
I better stop before I spend all day, but I'm betting it's a famous photographer.
Yes he is, and maybe more. I don't know why the name sounds familiar, and I have seen that web page before. Must have been when I was searching for something.
I found it, you won't believe it, he is very famous.
It's a self portrait.
http://www.noguchi.org/brancusip.htm
(I was guessing some french photographer...)
Er, excuse us, Eva et al. !!
<laughing at guests enjoying themselves>
Carry on!....
Who Brancusi is? A modernist sculptor...
Thanks, Eva... I'll shut up any minute now..
I knew it, I have to check my old pc and look at the links that are there and see if I already have him. Me too Eva. Thanks osso.
Later
I remember discussing Brancusi when I was an art major in college. Was he friends/colleagues with the Bauhaus architects, or is that my imagination?
(I agree...wonderful photo.)
I think I will google that.
Here's the piece of his that I remember.
Bird in Space
And I remember some hunky things...
I have used Brancusi as an adjective for some buildings, not that I remember which buildings, as in 'brancusian', and not that I remember why. Just a connection I once made decades ago that has, perhaps, a life of its own.
Well, my memory has failed me once again. Brancusi was friends with Duchamp, Leger, Matisse, Rousseau, et al. Earlier than Bauhaus, although you can see some of the same sensibilities. Here's a great quote from Brancusi. (LOVE the line about large trees...)
"After Michelangelo, sculptors wanted to make grandiose sculpture. They only succeeded in making grandiloquent sculpture. In the nineteenth century, the situation of sculpture was desperate. Rodin arrived and transformed everything. Thanks to him, man became again the measure, the module after which the sculpture was organized. Thanks to him sculpture became human again in its dimensions, in its signification, in its content. The influence of Rodin was and remains immense. While he was still alive and I showed at the Beaux Arts National of which he was president, certain friends and protectors, among them the queen [of Rumania], tried, without consulting me, to have me admitted to his studio. Rodin accepted me as a student. But I refused because nothing grows under large trees. My friends were angry, ignorant as they were of Rodin's reaction. When he learned of my decision, he simply said, 'Basically he's right. He is as stubborn as Iamb.' Rodin had a modest attitude toward his art. When he finished his Balzac, which remains the incontestable point of departure for modern sculpture, he declared, 'It is now that I would like to begin work.'"
