This week's installment of Fan-made Gems features an art that I deeply love: photography. It's not just that I practice it myself, it's that photographs are a versatile type of art - your imagination can just take over and you can do so much with them!
In this case, Christopher Moloney takes pictures of real-world places that were used in films. He holds up a black & white shot of the scene from the movie, obscuring part of the frame as he takes a picture of the current location. The effect is very, very impressive.
Check out Moloney's work at his excellent tumblr.
Seems kind of derivative of the artist Ben Heine http://www.benheine.com/
ReplyDeleteWell, Ben's work is good, but this isn't like taking a picture of a dog while holding up a photo of the dog in front of part of the dog.
DeleteThe motion pictures have already been shot - and, since these places have been familiar to me from like age 7 and up, I can tell you - I've seen that subway entrance all my life. I've thought of The Warriors often... I respond more to Moloney's shots, and in a very particular way.
And, hell, Heine may not be the first to do it, either. For all I know, artists were doing these exact types of photos in the 1940's or 50's or something. The shots I put up here require