Video: Incredible photo montage: works inspired by paintings by Edward Hopper
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Richard Tuschman - a talented American photographer who, using modern digital technologies, reproduced the paintings of one of the most famous urbanists of the twentieth century, the artist Edward Hopper. A project called "Hopper Meditations" turned out to be impressive.
On his canvases, Edward Hopper hesitated to capture the everyday life of New York, to create a collective image of a typical American, often a lonely person, devastated, sad, disappointed in life. Hopper's paintings became the subject of reflection in the work of Richard Tushman.
The photographs of Richard Tushman have a special secret. The master first creates scenery in the form of a diorama, inside which he places mannequins. He takes the first photo of the "room" with the right lighting, and then - a photo of the models (starring models Aria McKenna and Ariel Kleinberg) against a uniform background. The two resulting images are combined using the graphics editor Photoshop. After professional processing, the images look like they were originals.
Edward Hopper's paintings were painted in oils, so Richard Tushman puts in a lot of effort trying to achieve the appropriate "texture" of the background. The photographer says that the canvases of the famous painter have always attracted him with intense psychologism, combined with the maximum economy of artistic means. The main thing that he tries to convey in the photographs is a sense of human humility, an atmosphere of peace and quiet. In addition, Tushman, like Hopper, loves New York (where he lives), so urban studies were close to him.
Tushman is not embarrassed that the paintings were painted at the beginning of the 20th century. Firstly, they remind him of family photo albums, which Richard loved to look at as a child, and, secondly, states such as loneliness and melancholy are not subject to time, they invariably overtake people, no matter what time they live.
By the way, let us recall that, in addition to Richard Tushman, Edward Hopper's paintings were reproduced in photography by the French duo Clark and Pougnaud.
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