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After Manet - le Dejeuner sur l'herbe

By  John Paul Evans 2011 - 2012

After Manet - Le dejeuner sur l'herbe

‘Stilled Lives’ are a series of self-portraits that reference artworks from western history. The pinhole photographs need extended exposure, (usually 3-6 minutes) which requires the sitter to perform stasis for this primitive technology. Remaining still for prolonged periods is reminiscent of the life model’s role, becoming petrified in the temporal drift. Walter Benjamin believed that in early examples of photography an ‘aura’ was captured through the long exposures necessary to record the images: “The procedure itself taught the models to live inside rather than outside the moment. During the long duration of these shots they grew as it were into the picture”. (Walter Benjamin – A Short History of Photography)

After Raphael - the judgement of Paris

After Manet - Olympia

After Ingres small bather

After Parrasio Micheli - the lute playing Venus

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What is lost...what has been at the Fox Talbot Museum

After Jordaens - Allegory of Fertility

Domestic typology

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