I recently bought a copy of "Christ to Coke - How Image becomes Icon" by Martin Kemp, in which he traces the process by which certain images have become iconic.
Here are two pictures that I am very familiar with, as I'm sure most of you are, but I have never thought of them together before. When I first saw them side by side on the page I was struck by their compositional similarities; Kemp describes them as 'distant cousins'. I thought other people might be interested to see it: <http://www.web-options.com/flagraft.htm> The first is Rosenthal's picture of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi; the second is Gericault's painting of the Raft of the Medusa. <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christ-Coke-Image-Becomes-Icon/dp/0199581118> B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
