they remind me quite a lot of a certain type of poster I've often seen on the walls of African cafes and bars. I don't know where these posters come from, or how to describe them in such a way that I can google some examples. But they are composites of somebody's fantasy of an ideal landscape. Typically they have some fresh Alpine mountains in the background, with snow against a blue sky. This becomes a spring wildflower meadow containing apple & pear trees in fruit (autumn!) leading down to a tropical beach with palms, coconuts, pineapples etc. Somewhere in the middle distance is an ultramodern city of tall glass and steel buildings but no roads leading in or out. Everything looks almost plausible taken in isolation, but the landscape must be on a planet with several suns, to judge by the shadows and light. They are horrifically fascinating. The surfaces, just like the surfaces in the landscapes I linked to, look untouchable in the way that CGI surfaces (used to?) look, and the colours are bright and oversaturated in the most unnatural way, as if they're straight out of a chemical plant.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: 29 June 2006 07:22 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Cartoon effect > > Actually they're not that bad if you don't view them as photographs. > They looked to me like some 1930's maybe 1940's calendar art. > The fact > that they are photographs just shows that the photographer > didn't think > his work would stand on it's own. > think > >>that's happened to me before looking at photos: > >>http://www.jturnerphotography.com/ > >> > >>These seem to me to be at least as devoid of taste as the Stepford > >>women. Are these perhaps Stepford landscapes? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
