Edward Hopper

I'm influenced as much by non-photo art books as photo ones -- though to be fair I've come to largely ignore the boundaries between different genres of visual art. Photo, sketch, daubed, dunked, digitized -- all inevitably come from the same sources and lead to similar destinations.

bjorke said:

I'm influenced as much by non-photo art books as photo ones -- though to be fair I've come to largely ignore the boundaries between different genres of visual art. Photo, sketch, daubed, dunked, digitized -- all inevitably come from the same sources and lead to similar destinations.

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So true, art comes from within and not the tools one chooses.

on Vermeer

Not a book but since Vermeer has come up...I highly recommend the movie that came out in 2003 "Girl with the Pearl Earing" obviously after one of his most famous portraits. The movie is exceptionally well photographed...each scene could be a painting (or photograph) unto it's own. Amazing lighting and the movie is also very good. They even have a scene where Jan brings a "camera obscura" home to the studio and shows it to his model.