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“You should in any case go to the museum often” was what Vincent Van Gogh told his brother, and with any doubt, nowadays, he will be demanding to most of us the same.
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However, that is not going to be necessary any more as museums have gone to your house. Yeap, the art, the culture is now available from the commodity of your sofa.
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Through another art, the photography, the new online museums have arisen. Some may be indifferent to this initiative, anyway, I feel is a pretty step forward. Why does people go to museums?
Well, the answer is nothing else but my opinion, but I definitely believe in the evasion capacity museums offers; museums seen as a way of dreaming of another époque… isn´t it incredible that we would be capable of having this cultural dreaming in our house? Besides, through art we get to understand someone’s mind, the situation they were dealing with… and photography just offers the most perfect and pure image of that.
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What I like the most about photography is what it represents. Over a superficial look, you just see the photo, but when observing it, you see through the photo a whole story behind it. In fact, history could be nearly studied based on photographs… and so does fashion.
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People may think that fashion is just a trend, but rather than a trend is the reflection of ourselves, of who we are, who we might gonna’ be and how is the society in which we live.
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Why don´t you make a guess on these fashion photos of the George Estman Museum and try to come up with the story they evocate you?
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P.S. I leave you my deviné.
Jim Pond.
Family in Convertible Somewhere in Texas, June 3–24, 1968. © Kodak
The photography represents the perfection. However, is this the truth? When before I meant that photography could represent a dream, this was what I was talking about. The photo was taken in 1968, a year in which several catastrophes darkened the Americans life; the murdered of Martin Luther King, of J.F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War…and those were making citizens believe that the American Dream had died. Therefore, this photo, the exaltation of the perfect family, tries to remember that the American Dream was still possible.
Do you realise what fashion has to do with this photo? The colorful vetements are not a matter of casuality, but the intention of demonstrating their feelings, joyful and happiness.
Manhattan Sundays
Richard Renaldi
These pictures were taken between Saturday night and Sunday night. What is inspiring about the collection is that shows the change in people, the need to act as is they were someone else.
Both fashion and elegant, but what distinguish them? Second one, sadness, the need of evading of her daily problems and patying to forget. However, the first woman, seems powerful and confident, the kind of woman that everyone admires or fear.
I would like to rephrase Renaldi, as in fact, I could have never expressed it better: “the mystery and abandonment of the club, the nightscape, and then finally daybreak, each offering a transformation of Manhattan from the known world into a dreamscape of characters acting out their fantasies on a grand stage.”
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But, are any of them trully happy?