Julian Tanase
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Nikon FM3a, Kodak Tri-X 400
When nothingness stares back
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Gianluca Drago
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It reminds me of this other photo of yours, Jualian: https://realphotographersforum.com/threads/under-the-streets.26465/ Did you have that scene in mind when you took this?
Julian Tanase
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Gianluca, to be honest, no. I was drawn to this photograph because of the almost hypnotic feeling one has when looking deep into that blackness. An eerie feeling, really. Almost like staring at our own mortality, and it stares back at us.
Gary Ayala
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Oddly, Mr./Ms. No Torso ... has feet. I like the photo ... tell us more about the statue.
Julian Tanase
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This is what I learned, about the statue:
"Mozart and Archbishops united in art
In 1999, Prague artist Anna Chromy created her Pietá, a very popular and highly photographed sculpture. She was commissioned to do so by Archbishop Georg Eder, drawing inspiration from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Jedermann”.
The complex meanings of an empty coat
In the hollow figure, observers may very well see Death – or the opposite, namely that which remains. The inscription on the base reads: “The empty mantle as a symbol of that which survives us: the love we gave, the works we created, the suffering we bore.” The empty “Cloak of Conscience” is this artist’s most popular work, with other examples to be found in Prague, Athens as well as Monaco."
"Mozart and Archbishops united in art
In 1999, Prague artist Anna Chromy created her Pietá, a very popular and highly photographed sculpture. She was commissioned to do so by Archbishop Georg Eder, drawing inspiration from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Jedermann”.
The complex meanings of an empty coat
In the hollow figure, observers may very well see Death – or the opposite, namely that which remains. The inscription on the base reads: “The empty mantle as a symbol of that which survives us: the love we gave, the works we created, the suffering we bore.” The empty “Cloak of Conscience” is this artist’s most popular work, with other examples to be found in Prague, Athens as well as Monaco."
Beth Carter
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that's a nazgul from lord of the rings.
