Pictures I like

[North Star]

Now for something completely different....!

I went to Charleroi / Marchienne - au - Pont for the Musée de la Photographie : http://www.museephoto.be/actuelles.html

Great little exhibition on Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) .

A photographer I'd never heard of - not that this is in any way extraordinary, a year ago I wasn't all that familiar with Ansel Adams, not to mention Edward Weston and countless others.
Interesting works, thanks for posting.

I liked these two in particular:

   

[Mookalafalas]

Great selections! Photos like these are magic to me--not just art but time machines.

[George]

Great selections! Photos like these are magic to me--not just art but time machines.

That's how I feel about historical recordings.

[pjme]

Thanks!

Misonne is mainly famous for his "artistic" photographs. He tried (using all kinds of techniques) to be a "painter with light".  The expo in Marchienne-au-Pont focuses on his (still carefully framed) snapshots of friends and family.

Some of the landscapes come close to sentimental kitsch. But he was a master.

[North Star]

Ah yes, Pictorialism.
That does have a nice Millet-like feel to it, but I certainly don't think Pictorialism really helped promoting photography as an art form.

[pjme]

Indeed, and Wikipedia says it all:

Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer's realm of imagination.[1]
Pictorialism as a movement thrived from about 1885 to 1915, although it was still being promoted by some as late as the 1940s. It began in response to claims that a photograph was nothing more than a simple record of reality, and transformed into an international movement to advance the status of all photography as a true art form. For more than three decades painters, photographers and art critics debated opposing artistic philosophies, ultimately culminating in the acquisition of photographs by several major art museums.
Pictorialism gradually declined in popularity after 1920, although it did not fade out of popularity until the end of World War II. During this period the new style of photographic Modernism came into vogue, and the public's interest shifted to more sharply focused images. Several important 20th-century photographers began their careers in a pictorialist style but transitioned into sharply focused photography by the 1930s.

[North Star]

And they tended to smear the lens with vaseline to achieve that blurry look.

[Moonfish]

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[The Six]

[George]

[The Six]

[The Six]

[ibanezmonster]

I don't get it...

[Mookalafalas]

I don't get it...

Yeah, I'm definitely missing something. Maybe you have to see the movie? (Which probably means i will never get it...)

[The Six]

[George]

[mn dave]

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Oh yes, Star Wars, Star Wars! For the most part trailer felt little forced (no pun intended) but I liked that part. I still think Abrams can make it a very good movie and hell, almost anything is better than Lucas's script writing skills.

//Oh, I didn't even notice that gif was a parody, not original. Should I be worried?

[The Six]