what a comrade...
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Jocko
Off With The Pixies
That nice gentleman is indeed an inspiration to us all. Come and join in Comrade Andrealed, our FSU corner is a haven of sanity in a forum which sometimes has a touch of the Guernicas 😀
Cheers, Ian!
Cheers, Ian!
JimG
dogzen
Fedzilla_Bob
man with cat
Looks like Comrade Pablo got along fine with an I26.
reagan
hey, they're only Zorkis
Yeah, great shot andrealed. Thanks for the link.
lushd
Donald
I love that picture but I am also curious - is it bona fide? There's something about the shadows that disturbs me.
Jocko
Off With The Pixies
Donald, I think I've seen that picture reproduced elsewhere and I'm pretty sure it's genuine: Picasso did have a FED 2. But thankyou for making me look again, because you're absolutely right: there is something "wrong" with it, which I'd never noticed before! Unless I'm very much mistaken, I think his shadow on the wall is actually reversed!
It reminds me of photographs they used to retouch for the press or for reproduction on low quality paper, which often contain all sorts of mistakes. It would be interesting to know the source of this picture.
Ian
It reminds me of photographs they used to retouch for the press or for reproduction on low quality paper, which often contain all sorts of mistakes. It would be interesting to know the source of this picture.
Ian
lushd
Donald
Good thinking Batman - it could just be the retouching. His arm is akimbo on the wrong side in the shadow. The photographers shadow seems to fall at a different angle to the others as well.
There's a famous example of a picture of Leonid Brezhnev greeting some foreign dignitary at the airport. When Pravda or whoever were preparing it for publication they realised that said dignitary had kept his hat on while Brezhnev had doffed his. Well, it wouldn't do for the leader of the Soviet Peoples (or SOVPEEP as we called them in North London) to be seen to kow-tow to a foreigner.
So out came the airbrush and Brezhev got a hat on his head. But the artist forgot to remove the one Brezhnev had been holding in his hand. So the leader of the glorious revolutionary Soviet Union was seen to be wearing one hat and carrying another. This may have caused some observers to question his grip on reality ...
Of course this may just be an urban myth. So here's a picture of Brezhnev making a pass at Richard Nixon just to keep us amused.
There's a famous example of a picture of Leonid Brezhnev greeting some foreign dignitary at the airport. When Pravda or whoever were preparing it for publication they realised that said dignitary had kept his hat on while Brezhnev had doffed his. Well, it wouldn't do for the leader of the Soviet Peoples (or SOVPEEP as we called them in North London) to be seen to kow-tow to a foreigner.
So out came the airbrush and Brezhev got a hat on his head. But the artist forgot to remove the one Brezhnev had been holding in his hand. So the leader of the glorious revolutionary Soviet Union was seen to be wearing one hat and carrying another. This may have caused some observers to question his grip on reality ...
Of course this may just be an urban myth. So here's a picture of Brezhnev making a pass at Richard Nixon just to keep us amused.
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Jocko
Off With The Pixies
"Dick, haf you heard wunabout Zenit EM and armadillo?..."
Fedzilla_Bob
man with cat
That, my comrades, is the shadow of another person, out of frame. Off stage left.
lushd
Donald
I think we need to call Scully and Mulder.
There are 2 shadows of people - one behind Pablo, one falling in his torso/waist. The one behind him is making the mirror image of his pose.
Also, why is he wearning 2 watches?
There are 2 shadows of people - one behind Pablo, one falling in his torso/waist. The one behind him is making the mirror image of his pose.
Also, why is he wearning 2 watches?
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Fedzilla_Bob
man with cat
Wait didn't you hear? He lived in two time zones. 🙂
I heard Scully was asking for my phone number.
I heard Scully was asking for my phone number.
lushd
Donald
“When Nixon visited Moscow, he and Khrushchev ran around the Kremlin in a race. Nixon came first. Pravda wrote:Jocko said:
In the international running competition the General Secretary of the Communist Party took the honorable second place.’ Mister Nixon came in one before last.”
lushd
Donald
Fedzilla_Bob said:
If she calls - give her my number... please.
Jocko
Off With The Pixies
Just to add a little more alarm and dispondency, I thought perhaps Comrades might enjoy a true masterwork of the totalitarian retoucher's art - from a North Korean book entitled Outstanding Leadership and Brilliant Victory, which - surprisingly - is about Kim Il Sung (as are all books in NK 😀 )
This is captioned as a photograph of Kimmy leading a counterattack along the River Chongchon....
Just to add one point - it was a convention of socialist realism to emphasise the industrial development of the countryside. Often artists would add pylons to a landscape... whoever did this has - just the one, drawn with a nail!
Cheers, Ian
This is captioned as a photograph of Kimmy leading a counterattack along the River Chongchon....
Just to add one point - it was a convention of socialist realism to emphasise the industrial development of the countryside. Often artists would add pylons to a landscape... whoever did this has - just the one, drawn with a nail!
Cheers, Ian
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Fedzilla_Bob
man with cat
Brother- Should she call, I'll likely use my one "get out of jail free" card my wife dispensed to me just in case I met Catherine Zeta Jones.lushd said:
As for FEDs and Pablo, are any of his photos published?
Jocko
Off With The Pixies
Fedzilla_Bob said:
Indeed Bob: there are quite a few books andat least one well-regarded illustrated study, "The Dark Mirror", which is currently in print and which you can read about here:
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wc...00.html&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail=
Cheers, Ian
darkkavenger
Massimiliano Mortillaro
Jocko, the pylon is so funny, it looks like if they wanted to incorporate the North-Korean Coat of Arms into the picture... of course there was no room for the hydro-electric power plant so they just put a pylon there, near the T-34/85 tank 😉
captainslack
Five Goats Hunter
Re: the shadow in the photograph.
Guys/Gals, this is Picasso we're talking about!!! Of course, his shadow is going the wrong way! I'm surprised it's not square, for Christsake! 😀
Guys/Gals, this is Picasso we're talking about!!! Of course, his shadow is going the wrong way! I'm surprised it's not square, for Christsake! 😀
ampguy
Veteran
So what were Pablo's favorite lenses? or did he just use one?
