Cypress Trees through Cellphone (Van Gogh)
“Now the olive and the cypress have exactly the significance here as the willow has at home. What I have done is a rather hard and coarse reality beside their abstractions, but it will have a rustic quality, and will smell of the earth. ”
Letter to Theo van Gogh, November 1889
And one day - long after you’re gone - a man will capture this painting with a small device and another man will make a record of this capture with still another device which translates images into a collection of zeros and ones.
GREAT shot… I love the contrast of a person taking a photo with a cell phone of a painting that was created before phones were ever invented.
Scott Fillmer
7 Sep 08 at 5:08 pm
[...] Dave of New York Photography - “Cyprus Trees Through Cellphone (Van Gogh)“ [...]
Jason D. Moore Photography » Blog Archive » P&P Weekly: #92
10 Sep 08 at 7:11 am