Thanks, Bob! Just purchased. Looks very interesting. Cheers, Christine
On Dec 26, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
