Comments on: Using fine-art images to promote movies

Using fine-art images to promote movies

JPowers — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:22:26 -0800

Using fine-art images to promote movies: "But it was Mr. Kessell's "Florilegium" (or "collection of floral images") daguerrotypes that caught Mr. Palen's eye: each image is close-up of a surgical instrument, so poetically rendered that it seems almost organic. Some of the macabre implements resemble exotic flowers. One, from a distance, could be mistaken for the horns of a gazelle. "We were sort of blocked, and all the pieces fell into place once I saw that image," Mr. Palen explained. A deal was made to use that daguerreotype [to promote the upcoming Tarantino-produced film "Hostel"], which actually shows a surgical clamp. [The poster] now appears in theaters and on widespread promotions. [Side: direct WMV link of Tarantino spazing out while introducing "Hostel's" director Eli Roth at a festival.]

By: jrossi4r

jrossi4r — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:56:42 -0800

Really interesting. Thank you. ( Although I do wish the Times piece had linked to the Rosemary's Baby poster they were referring to instead of the American version.)

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:12:34 -0800

I wouldn't have guessed it was a fine art image. It reminds me of the Saw II poster.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:16:41 -0800

What does "fine art" even mean anymore?

By: JPowers

JPowers — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:27:00 -0800

What does "fine art" even mean anymore? What did it ever mean?

By: theperfectcrime

theperfectcrime — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:40:20 -0800

Couldn't access the whole Tarantino bits, but I love the botanical photography. I'm thinking of buying several books by http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-5477918-5278568?url=index%3Dblended&field-keywords=karl+blossfeldt&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

By: theperfectcrime

theperfectcrime — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:42:04 -0800

Woops, Karl Blossfeldt

By: theperfectcrime

theperfectcrime — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:02:04 -0800

sorry, on first glance they really looked like botanical photos. Color me inattentive.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:21:34 -0800

The Making of a Daguerreotype using the good old fashioned, highly toxic, hazmat-alert method. More details and images at Mirror with a Memory. The Library of Congress has an online collection of over 700 daguerrotypes, including the earliest known portraits of Abraham Lincoln.

By: tula

tula — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:35:46 -0800

This remind me of the gynecological metal sculptures in the unbelievably creepy Kronenberg film Dead Ringers. Excuse me, I have to go look at pictures of puppies now.

By: tula

tula — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:36:29 -0800

Cronenberg.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:25:21 -0800

The Library of congress needs the metanerds parachuted in to sort that site out , its not easy to navigate at all.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:16:20 -0800

I saw a presentation about 18-century medical texts a few years back. The instruments were presented in a similar fashion (though not photographically, of course). It seems the intent was to show the instruments as beautiful and benign. Even the illustrations of the instruments in use were peaceful and beautiful--you know, amputations, some sort of prostate removal, a mastectomy. Surgeons were trying to clean up their image, I guess.