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A few years ago, we featured Spanish photographer Chema Madoz and his surreal, black and white photos. Born in 1958, and with several collections to his name, Madoz is famously coy about his pictures' aim, even when asked directly:
"The fact is that I don’t give any thought to the reaction they’ll cause in the viewer," Madoz told Bookstyle. "I look for images that move me and touch me, that make me feel that I’m doing something different which I wasn’t aware of. I want to be able to stand in front of my pictures and feel that I can communicate with them. If a picture says something to me, I feel confident that there may be other people who will experience the same thing."
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Kirsten Preston 9 years ago
Well spotted, I love looking at wood as there is always a pattern hiding somewhere.
Julie Canfield 9 years ago
Ironic that from a lovely plank with beautiful lines comes a stick which can destroy it
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Warren Brown 9 years ago
How's THAT for a real combination of bad luck! You could walk under the ladder, then while climbing up the ladder, you break the mirror!
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Jody Wentworth 9 years ago
I've played a trumpet for 2 years(going on my third) so this is very meaningful to me--though this is the most famous cleff. There is also a bass cleff, I would add a pic of it, but I don't kniw how to add a pic to a comment.
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Warren Cancilla 9 years ago
To those complaining about Photoshop, no one said this was straight photography (look again at the tree in the cloud). The point is to make a thought provoking picture!
Whipload Channel 6 years ago
To ppl calling photoshop: There's no need to use photoshop for an effect like this
Imagine That 8 years ago
photo shop ? maybe NOT. If you start with a clean surface. Then took a fine tipped paint brush, and painted the perimeter of a puzzle piece shape. Then oh so carefully filled the design with water from an eye dropper... guessing the water would not run past the perimeter. and viola, you have a puzzle shaped "rain drop".
Henriette M 9 years ago
most likely its not even photoshop - it might be, but it would be a lot more likely that the photographer saw a puddle of drops that looked a bit like a puzzle piece and decided to shape it
Manny Moons 9 years ago
I estimate the odds of such as natural occurrence as greater-than-impossible and less-than-infinitesimal.
Henriette M 9 years ago
first of all, most of these are not natural occurrences. I actually dont think a single one is. Photos are allowed to be staged. It might be photoshopped, which is absolutely valid and still real photography?? Photoshop takes a lot of skill, and you need to edit photos for them to be black/white in the first place. Or maybe he just sat down and literally shaped a drop into a puzzle piece?
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jetmastergames 9 years ago
I agree with tamra, even if it is photoshopped it still takes great skill to do something like this and i honestly doubt if you, Maisy, could do this.
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Julie Canfield 9 years ago
Inside everything is something else. Usually its the opposite of what we see
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Tiny Dynamine 9 years ago
Seriously?! The glass is in the same position as something else that has that shape...
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Jessica MacSween 9 years ago
The glass is in the same place as her public hair. Women generally get hair in that region, although, pop culture makes you thinks otherwise
Warren Cancilla 9 years ago
What if, as an artist, now stay with me on this one... It was all intentional: The slightly hairy arms, the slightly office center glass that could be something else, the fact that she's not standing exactly straight, the image stopping at the chin, etc? What if it makes you think about larger issues?...
terry follmer 9 years ago
A similar image was used in a U.S. television commercial. I don't remember what they were selling. It was promptly yanked off the air. Some of my fellow Americans have no sense of humor.
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Tamra Smith 9 years ago
Pretty sure he's a she, but I see the resemblance.
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Marco Andreas 9 years ago
Pretty clever, because in german vocabulary a bulb and a pear share their noun.
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Manny Moons 9 years ago
I was told that our national obsession with time began with railroad timetables.
Warren Brown 9 years ago
What time is it? It's time you moved off the tracks, the 10:25 is coming through!!
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Warren Cancilla 9 years ago
Well, yes. You can't have it because there is none :( But if there was you could certainly have it and eat it, too.
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Veronica Hufana 9 years ago
I see unlocked potential, or the destruction involved in the creative process. Part of building is tearing down. As a literal interpretation, if the records never get played/the cymbals never get hit, we'll never know the sounds they make. Consequently, they'll break. There's irony there too, impermanence vs. breaking records (literally and figuratively). #JustSpitballing #ILoveArt #BreakRecords
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Warren Cancilla 9 years ago
I think it's an orange and the photo is displayed upside down to create the illusion of floating.
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Pastel Unicorn 9 years ago
These really aren't very 'mind bending ' , they are nice to look at if anything
Pastel Unicorn 9 years ago
These really aren't very 'mind bending ' , they are nice to look at if anything
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