Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution images of its collection. All artwork will show a sun (or sunlight) somewhere.
I won’t name the piece or the artist, but instead invite you to study the art and post a comment addressing one or more of these questions:
- What is going on in this picture?
- What do you see in the picture?
- What does it make you think of?
- What observations can you make?
Note: To embiggen the image, click on it!
Ha! Funny choice. The sun as necessary/risky for taking and developing photographs.
I like the checked pants on the man on the far left.
The oddest thing , in my opinion, is that you have this masculine group of men puttering around with film equipment in what looks like someone’s back yard , and then you see , in the photo on the right , what looks like a statue of three naked women , embracing.
I spy a top hat on the far right !!!
Based on the recent sonnet on this site about the sun often being out of the picture but hovering off to the left: it seems the same here for both photographs. For what that’s worth. IT’s hard to figure out who is who in these photos. IT doesn’t seem as if the same person(s) are in both pictures. It appears to be a historical pair of photos – photos about making the first photos? I am assuming the big box-like things on tripods are cameras.
??? HUH? WHAT ARE THESE GUYS DOING??? I SEE MORE THAN ONE TOP HAT ! THE GUY SLOUCHING IN THE CHAIR HAS ONE, TOO. THIS LOOKS LIKE A BACKYARD TAG SALE
This looks to be an early panorama. In the picture on the left the legs of camera tripod on the far right extend into the 2nd picture on the right. Also I can see that the corner of the garage roof in the picture on the left peeks through on the picture on the right. I wonder what the two semi-circular disks are for in the very far right by the kneeling man.
Humans being human: building, creating, experimenting. Would t hat this be true for all humans, not just the lucky ones !