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alfredo

(60,074 posts) Thu Sep 5, 2013, 11:42 PM Sep 2013

I often look to movies and paintings to inform my photography.

Tonight I have been looking at Edward Hopper's paintings. I really like his interiors and spare compositions. He's a good person to study in preparation for the longer nights to come. The urban settings, and the sense of isolation makes me think he was influenced by the movies at the time.
http://www.edwardhopper.net/index.jsp

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I often look to movies and paintings to inform my photography. (Original Post) alfredo Sep 2013 OP

A gift! Thank you so much, Alfredo! Mira Sep 2013 #1

Wonderful song. alfredo Sep 2013 #2

I like Hopper Stevenmarc Sep 2013 #3

Sometimes it is just the feeling you take away. The movie "Barton Fink" and alfredo Sep 2013 #4

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Mira

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1. A gift! Thank you so much, Alfredo!

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Fri Sep 6, 2013, 07:46 PM

Sep 2013

Hopper inspires me so very much, not so much my paltry photography, but in how I look at shapes, placement, subject matter, negative space in just about everything I lay my eyes on.
Toulouse Lautrec does the same thing for my appreciation of all those things, and then, there always is Vincent.

I hope it won't annoy you if I go and find the link to the marvelous run-down of his work in "Starry starry night..." and add it to my response.
I think pointing us to where we can learn to see - by looking at the huge wealth of work by the masters of color/space and presentation of it - is valuable.