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"History's most iconic photos, recreated in miniature":
Working on the project intermittently over the last three years, that 'joke' now covers two centuries of photographs, complete with making-of photographs [pdf], and includes copies of the very first photograph, the first flight of an airplane, and the first person on the moon.
More making-of photos are available, with context, on their website under the 'Personal -> Ikonen' directory, but aren't easily linkable; there are several other galleries of their work, absent context, available elsewhere.
Photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger have a curious side project: They build meticulous scale models recreating iconic photographs. “It started out as a joke,” Cortis says. “In our free time, when there’s no money coming in, we decided to try to recreate the most expensive pictures in the world.”
Working on the project intermittently over the last three years, that 'joke' now covers two centuries of photographs, complete with making-of photographs [pdf], and includes copies of the very first photograph, the first flight of an airplane, and the first person on the moon.
More making-of photos are available, with context, on their website under the 'Personal -> Ikonen' directory, but aren't easily linkable; there are several other galleries of their work, absent context, available elsewhere.
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That Niepce photo is probably only iconic to photographers and art historians. And Bisson is pretty obscure. But that Gursky, I saw a show of his works, the prints are so huge and detailed, everything about them is monumental, they really have to be seen to be believed. I want to see these dioramas photographed and printed with the same size and detail, not just web pics. I want them to be monumentally, absolutely unbelievable.
posted by charlie don't surf at 12:34 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by charlie don't surf at 12:34 PM on March 16, 2015
This is totally going to be used by moonshot deniers.
posted by sammyo at 1:10 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by sammyo at 1:10 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
This is a fun project! As far as I can tell, the only images I can find of the mockups are the wide shots necessary for the joke to work. I'm really curious how close they'd look when framed similarly to the originals. Though I guess for some (e.g., Nessie) the film grain is really as significant a part of the picture as any element of the scene itself. It looks like they do try to recreate a some of that sort of thing in the "very first photograph" one.
posted by aubilenon at 1:47 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by aubilenon at 1:47 PM on March 16, 2015
Huh, I had always thought that View from the Window at Le Gras depicted two buildings on the sides, and an open field with a tree and some small bushes, partially covered by the stark shadows of the two buildings, stretching out to the horizon. Apparently it's just the roof of a third building in front of the window and what I took to be greenery just specks and blots on the print. Huh.
posted by procrastinator at 4:05 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by procrastinator at 4:05 PM on March 16, 2015
I hadn't realized how many of history's most iconic photographs involved explosions and/or painted cotton.
posted by hwestiii at 4:17 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by hwestiii at 4:17 PM on March 16, 2015
Maybe this one next. I saw an original print of this today, it was big, about 16x20 and really crisp and rich black.
posted by charlie don't surf at 9:32 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by charlie don't surf at 9:32 PM on March 17, 2015
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