Sunday, September 26, 2010

Truly fictional photos by other photographers

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Andreas Gursky, 2006
This image is unbelievable.  I don't even know what it is or how it was taken with a camera.
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Andreas Gursky 1997
Gursky's images draw out dimensions.  He stretches images so that you feel like you are entering such an incredibly large space that you really can't believe it!

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Here, Leibovitz shows through color and content who the white stripes are.  We know the stripes would never actually do that, but here they are doing it.
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Annie Leibovitz 1991
We see a place that is unbelievable.  How and why would anybody be there?!

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Helmut Newton (i couldn't find which year)
The photographer could not let that happen.  
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Helmut Newton (again, I couldn't find the year)
these images are so ridiculous that they're hilarious.  I can imagine a photographer being so into the shoot that he shoots while running and jumping, but this is practically the scene in Austin Powers.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1954
Kids with booze. And the look on his face!

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(I couldn't find the year)
First I wondered why these men were looking at a wall, then why they were sniffing poles, then I wondered what was so interesting on the other side of the screen.  I would laugh out loud if i saw a group of people staring at a screen in real life.
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Eliott Erwitt 1983
WOW!  How funny is it to see people in such a reversed situation?  Why are they wearing socks?
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Elliott Erwitt 1950


How unbelievably upsetting.  This is just like the boy with the grenade.  I don't believe it, but what if it's true?