Bob W 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>
Great. Another book that I can't afford to buy and don't have time to read. I'll order one immediately. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
