Atahualpa 2007 Photo

Photographer’s Note

There is not a single element of human presence on Earth more important to photography than...

THE FACE !

All of them !

The only other element that can be compared to the human faces is: The snow flake.

Billions of them and no two of them alike !

G.G.

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You give me the face, brothers and sister and, I'll give you the nation !

Breathlessly searching for the faces…

Some decades ago someone sung ( Louis Armstrong - as long as I know):

Give me a kiss to build my dream on….
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss…

?????????????

Well… I wouldn't ask for a kiss from that dude in a million years, but - I'd ask for his face !
And, my imagination will thrive just upon it…

Is that how the legendary Quechuas people ( Inkas) looked like ?

That face… That head… The nose… The skin… The hair...
It could be Atahualpa himself in my wild imagination !
I see them running the wilderness of Andean jungles, fighting pumas and making an 'eye contact' to the lamas and alpacas.

So, I have asked for his kiss… errr.. his face and I got his face and I'm giving you, the good people of TE - his face…

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sayeed_rahman (2267) 2009-04-08 7:09

Hi G

Interesting presentation...i'd like to know how you arrived a the result..was it a darkroom alteration ?

Strong potrait as always..the faces keep coming..strong is good.

Cheers
Sayeed

cyborg83 (3774) 2009-04-08 15:22

Witaj,
fajne jest to ze ponownie odnawiasz portfolio i ze mam szanse patrzec i sie uczyc, szkoda tylko ze robisz to z tak wielka czestotliwoscia bo brak mi czasu na analize :)
Ale mysle ze tym razem nie usuna Ci dorobku i ze bedzie czas na spokojne przejrzenie..
Imponujacy jest Twoj dorobek, a najwazniejsze ze uprawiasz to chyba najtrudniejsze rzemioslo - "reporterke portretowa" - dla mnie to narazie abstrakcja :)
Pozdrawiam

noborders (14199) 2009-04-08 15:44

The face is indeed very impressive but I don't understand this square of light ; OTOH, what I see in the square impresses me so much, a bit in the fashion of the portraits of the Renaissance, that I forgive you to puzzle me about the strange presentation.

And I feel as puzzled as Sayeed, but fascinated by his somewhat sarcastic glance at me.

Bravo !
Katarzyna
(PS : found again this painting (the 3rd one) on the web, but the original is a million times better of course - worked a full summer in Cefalù where I came regularly to pay him a visit in the museum : he has a bit the same glance, don't you think so ?)

Manamo (3472) 2009-04-10 8:11

George, I remember that post from the days before...and I remember how much I disliked that square...As if you did not know if you should crop or no.
Well, indeed, he has a hell of a face, very interesting expression. his eyes and traits say a lot!
but why did you do that?
Marc

Dpbours (218) 2009-04-12 14:07

This man likes himself!
I am sure he even likes himself more than I like myself!!

And that is a sickening lot of liking yourself I can tell you ;-).

Dennis