Comments on: Mystery image

By: Henry (not the famous one)

Henry (not the famous one) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:05:04 +0000

Yves Tanguy?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.french.pomona.edu/msaigal/classes/FR102/Spring99/corine-kerry-emily-photos/ndef-divisibility.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.french.pomona.edu/msaigal/classes/FR102/Spring99/corine-kerry-emily-photos/divisibilite%2520indefinie.htm&h=998&w=845&sz=109&tbnid=Id9W2Fse2jb1LM:&tbnh=149&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyves%2Btanguy%26um%3D1&start=2&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2

By: Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:52:18 +0000

Yves Klein?

By: The Next to Last Pope

The Next to Last Pope — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:54:46 +0000

Obviously a manifestation of the Virgin Mary.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:48:19 +0000

Trouble is, Eszter, that since you got me involved in this I spend so much time engaged in or thinking about photography that I hardly write for Crooked Timber any more!

By: Eszter

Eszter — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:01:50 +0000

Henry, I don’t think it’s that hard to guess that it’s bubbles, but bubbles where is less obvious. One person on Flickr thought it was beer, which I thought was interesting.

By: Henry (not the famous one)

Henry (not the famous one) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:10:18 +0000

To see a world in a grain of sand. Or, in this case, a universe in a collection of bubbles.

(Not that I’m advocating bubble universes or multiverses, or claiming that they have found their way into a toilet in Evanston.)

By: Cryptic Ned

Cryptic Ned — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:59:32 +0000

This was the principle that Franz Kline used for many (most?) of his paintings. He took photographs, projected them to become very large, and painted large representations of small areas of the photos that he thought represented the entire photo in a non-literal way.