Althouse: "They've shot the potato in such lavish detail and lighting that it looks like a jewel. It also harks back to the famous The Potato Eaters by Van Gogh."

৩ ডিসেম্বর, ২০১৮

"They've shot the potato in such lavish detail and lighting that it looks like a jewel. It also harks back to the famous The Potato Eaters by Van Gogh."

"If you pay attention, you see the beauty in the potato, a huge richness of colours in its skin. Each potato is different. These are portraits of individual potatoes. So, it's both still life and portrait photography."

১৬টি মন্তব্য:

Rob বলেছেন...: To take an artistic photograph of a potato, you need a good eye.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১১:৩৬ AM
tcrosse বলেছেন...: Keep your eyes peeled.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১১:৪১ AM
Ann Althouse বলেছেন...: Mr. Potato head drew on the expressive features of a potato. (In the old days, you used a real potato.); ৩/১২/১৮, ১১:৪৯ AM
Bob Boyd বলেছেন...: "They've shot the potato in such lavish detail and lighting that it looks like a jewel."

Maybe Hillary should hire these guys.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১১:৫৮ AM
Bob Boyd বলেছেন...: Personally, I don't think it looks like a jewel. It just looks like a well-lit potato.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১২:০৪ PM
Bob Boyd বলেছেন...: As does Hillary.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১২:০৫ PM
Darrell বলেছেন...: Looks like a potato to me.
I'll sell you some nice ones for $10 Grand, though. This week only.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১২:১৮ PM
Wince বলেছেন...: Looks like a well-lit asteroid.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১২:২৮ PM
Henry বলেছেন...: More Canadian Potato Museum than Van Gogh.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১২:২৮ PM
rhhardin বলেছেন...: Tomato, potato. Do one of Erato, the greek god of mistakes.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১২:৩১ PM
tcrosse বলেছেন...: "Shooting the Potato" sounds like some arcane sexual practice.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১:৫১ PM
Bilwick বলেছেন...: I remember a friend of mine who used to complain that whenever he went to the movies, he always ended up sitting next to someone like Mel Brooks' unseen character in his award-winning animated short, "The Critic:" old, Jewish, needing to keep up a running commentary on everything. One day he goes to a Van Gogh exhibit and is standing mesmerized before "The Potato Eaters." The spell, however, is broken by an old woman with a thick Ashkenazic accent (like Brooks in "The Critic" or Zoidberg on "Futurama") standing immediately behind him.

"Boy," she said to a companion, "do I love potatoes." He told me later he felt like whirling around and elbowing her in the face.

(I told this story to a Jewish friend of mine and she said, "We used to go all over the city to torment this anti-Semitic bastard."); ৩/১২/১৮, ২:০৯ PM
Maillard Reactionary বলেছেন...: I don't know where Kamini Sawhney has been (besides India) but photographers have been making images of vegetables since the medium was invented. For instance, Edward Weston's most well-known image Pepper #30 https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/39.208, Paul Caponigro's Apple https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/paul-caponigro/apple-2, and others too numerous to list.

The point of doing this, for those artists at least, was to illuminate through photography the miracle of the thing itself , and in this way, the miracle of conscious life that is our gift as human beings.

Of course, these photographers are just shallow jokers to whom everything is a joke. We made portraits-- of potatos! How ironic! How clever we are!

By the way, that potato did not appear to be shot , even with a very small caliber weapon. Perhaps they could try photographing the outcome of such an experiment for their next show.; ৩/১২/১৮, ৩:৪২ PM
rhhardin বলেছেন...: If you want to attract women, put the potato in the front, not the back.; ৩/১২/১৮, ৫:০৭ PM
Jupiter বলেছেন...: tcrosse said...
'"Shooting the Potato" sounds like some arcane sexual practice.'

Or something. I got as far as "They shot the potato..." and just stopped reading. That was enough for me. They had shot the potato. I want to shoot the potato too!; ৩/১২/১৮, ৮:০১ PM
Guildofcannonballs বলেছেন...: I'll be in my bunk.; ৩/১২/১৮, ১০:২৬ PM