Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' redux
by rooum

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I like it a lot more than I do the Fuseli 'Nightmare'. Maybe it was just a sign of the times but I've always thought that Fuseli seriously over-egged the pudding.

I like the low-tech look of this because I'm in love with low-tech photographs, but there's lots more to it than just some stylish negligence. The infant communicates a very unnerving sense of knowing rather more than an infant should. And it's a squirmingly splendid composition too. Everything about this image is deeply unsettling, just as you intended. I'm not sure what it was that Fuseli intended.

dark and darker
by posthumous

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Darcy is magnificent. Darcy's associate is perhaps a hair short of that standard, but presentable nonetheless. Especially so in a low light situation like this.

oh
by bvy

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Alexander Bayliss, as a young man.

If you haven't read The Industry of Souls then may I give you the urge? Martin Booth is dead now, but I think you'd nominate the novel for the posthumous blue.

phenomenon
by bvy

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Infinitely arresting and absorbing. If a viewer can't make a thrilling journey out of looking at this, he/she'd be in a pretty sad state imagination-wise.

And Oh, look! Nearly everybody is!

creases
by tnun

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I can taste Georgia O'Keefe here. Well, just a whiff, but that's plenty to be going on with.

But putting all that aside (mercifully, I hear you mutter), it's a beautiful thing: filled with light and space and a quiet majesty, rather like an understated stained glass window. It has that celestial portal feel about it.

modern community
by bspurgeon

Comment:

Originally posted by LydiaToo: Weird, but interesting. :D

True, but really we should be commenting on the photograph, rather than making ad hominem remarks.

Intersection
by mariuca

Comment:
Oh, get outta here! This juxta is juxt too perfect, and your picture is thoroughly comfortable in the company of the very best of pure street photographs. Thank you. Multumesc!

headspace
by daisydavid

Comment:
Oh bloody hell. This is just terrific, John. You're the quiet achiever, mate. I'm so glad you are uc-dai-loi because it makes me fondly imagine that some of it will rub off on me by association.

Afternoon walk
by Melethia

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Hope I look this interesting when I'm running out of gas. I guess I'll find out quite soon. You'd better come over & record my last steps shuffles.

Somersault twins 1
by rooum

Comment:
Clive! It's a wonderful photograph (and I mean that literally). Reminded me of how much I love Warren Harold's blog and how it celebrates life and love and photographs so wonderfully. I hope you will like it too. Thank you.