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A new series, gifts from the past.
Dec 26, 2023 20:36:07 #
Timmers
Loc: San Antonio Texas.
A new series, gifts from the past.
One obvious fact about most if not all of the people in these images and in fact the people who worked to make these photographs have in common...they are all dead. This may appear as harsh, but I would beg to differ on this point. If we take the log view and I do take the long view, there is an old Tibetan idea that holds that a person is not truly dead until the last living person does not remember them. This for me is one of the truly deep corner stones about photography. It is in fact what makes photography such a magical issue. It is not that photography is 'real' or that it is somehow reality. Photography's magic is that it has created a new form of magic for humankind.
By 'remembering' past human lives we living humans breath life back into the ancestor of our past. These people live on in the memory of humans through their captured likeness. And the enduring likeness that was captured is serviced by a new collective memory called the internet. We breath life back into our human friends that have gone before us. That is what I think is important. Their humanity lives on after their physical passing.
Of course you might think that I am biased in that I have chosen to re-print their image as mostly women and mostly out of their clothes, even some who are being naughty (I just don't think of them as pornographic, that idea just is much too boring as it is so pedestrian).
More as I advance through this project to represent a theme for the past.
One obvious fact about most if not all of the people in these images and in fact the people who worked to make these photographs have in common...they are all dead. This may appear as harsh, but I would beg to differ on this point. If we take the log view and I do take the long view, there is an old Tibetan idea that holds that a person is not truly dead until the last living person does not remember them. This for me is one of the truly deep corner stones about photography. It is in fact what makes photography such a magical issue. It is not that photography is 'real' or that it is somehow reality. Photography's magic is that it has created a new form of magic for humankind.
By 'remembering' past human lives we living humans breath life back into the ancestor of our past. These people live on in the memory of humans through their captured likeness. And the enduring likeness that was captured is serviced by a new collective memory called the internet. We breath life back into our human friends that have gone before us. That is what I think is important. Their humanity lives on after their physical passing.
Of course you might think that I am biased in that I have chosen to re-print their image as mostly women and mostly out of their clothes, even some who are being naughty (I just don't think of them as pornographic, that idea just is much too boring as it is so pedestrian).
More as I advance through this project to represent a theme for the past.
Dec 26, 2023 20:58:55 #
Timmers
Loc: San Antonio Texas.
I'm sorry to say that often what we are given with the images of the internet are posted by hacks.
Be low I add the tenth image in it poor state that I then modified to give a much more and correct presentation of the manner the image should be rendered. I have used Photoshop and guided by my knowledge of what an image like the one shown would have been crafted by the past photographer to render the image in a quality that would be of a type that the internet can produce.
Be low I add the tenth image in it poor state that I then modified to give a much more and correct presentation of the manner the image should be rendered. I have used Photoshop and guided by my knowledge of what an image like the one shown would have been crafted by the past photographer to render the image in a quality that would be of a type that the internet can produce.
Original copy from the net.
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Modefied to match the possible rendering of an image from the period.
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Dec 27, 2023 05:53:58 #
Timmers wrote:
I'm sorry to say that often what we are given with the images of the internet are posted by hacks.
Be low I add the tenth image in it poor state that I then modified to give a much more and correct presentation of the manner the image should be rendered. I have used Photoshop and guided by my knowledge of what an image like the one shown would have been crafted by the past photographer to render the image in a quality that would be of a type that the internet can produce.
Be low I add the tenth image in it poor state that I then modified to give a much more and correct presentation of the manner the image should be rendered. I have used Photoshop and guided by my knowledge of what an image like the one shown would have been crafted by the past photographer to render the image in a quality that would be of a type that the internet can produce.
All classy !!!
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Dec 27, 2023 09:06:48 #
Timmers wrote:
I'm sorry to say that often what we are given with the images of the internet are posted by hacks.
Be low I add the tenth image in it poor state that I then modified to give a much more and correct presentation of the manner the image should be rendered. I have used Photoshop and guided by my knowledge of what an image like the one shown would have been crafted by the past photographer to render the image in a quality that would be of a type that the internet can produce.
Be low I add the tenth image in it poor state that I then modified to give a much more and correct presentation of the manner the image should be rendered. I have used Photoshop and guided by my knowledge of what an image like the one shown would have been crafted by the past photographer to render the image in a quality that would be of a type that the internet can produce.
Nice post and descriptions of a bygone era. Nice work Tim, you never let us down.
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Jwshelton
Loc: Denver,CO
Timmers, you never disappoint.
Hoping for good health for you in 2024!
Peace!
Hoping for good health for you in 2024!
Peace!
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