sabelo and edward

SABELO

One of Sabelo's photographic images reminded me so much of Edward Hoppers painting called 'nighthawks' painted in 1942. I wrote in a comment on the Web Album that his photograph hit me inside_ and it puts me in touch with my feelings. It makes me feel quiet and introspective. This image's timeless quality and lighting reminds me so much of 'nighthawks'...so I decided to shed some light on this painting.

EDWARD: www.edwardhopper.info

 EDWARD HOPPER  was inspired by a restaurant on New York's Greenwich Avenue. Fluorescent lights had just come into use in the early 1940s, and the all-night diner emits an eerie glow, like a beacon on the dark street corner. Hopper eliminated any reference to an entrance, and the viewer, drawn to the light, is shut out from the scene by a seamless wedge of glass. The four anonymous and uncommunicative night owls seem as separate and remote from the viewer as they are from one another. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111628

Sabelo and Edward's comparison makes me think_ how photographers may be inspired by paintings and more specifically by the lighting qualities painters use to denote mood, shape, volume and focal point.

  

Please click on the links below for a 5min experience on these thoughts: 

buka lapha 1

view google images of edward hoppers painting and look at his attention to light_ think how you can reproduce these photographically

buka lapha 2 

view a blog where Maricarla Boscono recreates photographic moments inspired by  Edward Hopper