Jan 4: Photos of people who have lived in three centuries
Saw this on BoingBoing:
The idea to photograph people who have lived in three centuries evolved over the course of the project. First, I was simply interested in taking portraits of people who appear worn beyond their years by living extraordinarily hard lives. Those experiences drew me to centenarians, and on to supercentenarians and their stories.
-Mark Story (the artist)
It's a pretty interesting collection, both as a captured piece of history as well as photographically. He uses very hard directional light which really accentuates the texture of each subject's face.
As an example, the photo to the right belongs to a "110 year 320 day-old American man of Native American, African American and Swedish descent — the 44th oldest living person in the world."
From the photo page:
His father stood on the platform next to President Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. His father was the illegitimate son of Lincoln's Vice-President, Andrew Johnson, who became President after Lincoln's assassination.
...and from the artist's statement:
The experience of talking with a 110 year-old man whose father stood next to Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address does not easily lend itself to words. A photograph seemed appropriate.
Click here to view the whole collection.
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Saw this on BoingBoing:
It's a pretty interesting collection, both as a captured piece of history as well as photographically. He uses very hard directional light which really accentuates the texture of each subject's face.
As an example, the photo to the right belongs to a "110 year 320 day-old American man of Native American, African American and Swedish descent — the 44th oldest living person in the world."
From the photo page:
...and from the artist's statement:
Click here to view the whole collection.
The idea to photograph people who have lived in three centuries evolved over the course of the project. First, I was simply interested in taking portraits of people who appear worn beyond their years by living extraordinarily hard lives. Those experiences drew me to centenarians, and on to supercentenarians and their stories.
-Mark Story (the artist)
It's a pretty interesting collection, both as a captured piece of history as well as photographically. He uses very hard directional light which really accentuates the texture of each subject's face.
As an example, the photo to the right belongs to a "110 year 320 day-old American man of Native American, African American and Swedish descent — the 44th oldest living person in the world."From the photo page:
His father stood on the platform next to President Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. His father was the illegitimate son of Lincoln's Vice-President, Andrew Johnson, who became President after Lincoln's assassination.
...and from the artist's statement:
The experience of talking with a 110 year-old man whose father stood next to Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address does not easily lend itself to words. A photograph seemed appropriate.
Click here to view the whole collection.
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