I’ve been drawn to looking at Hopper’s work. I’m not exactly sure but I am primarily looking at his work for the quietness, but also for the intense isolation tinged with lonesomeness. So it’s interesting to me to begin to notice these “scenes” out in the real world so to speak. So I’m asking myself – how to compose a photograph to be possibly nearly as emotive as the constructed images of Hopper’s paintings… yet clearly be “of the world out there”.
Early Sunday Morning 1930 – Edward Hopper
Oil on canvas 35 x 60 in.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
East St. Louis, Illinois, 2003
From the series “Approaching Nowhere” by Jeff Brouws.
copyrighted by Jeff Brouws.
Some of Brouws work comes close to reminding me of that quietness…
3:54 PM. Sunday Afternoon – Matt Niebuhr
I walk by this building above quite often – maybe finding it in the right light with the right activity level – might just get closer to what I’m searching for – an update so to speak on the “Sunday Morning” feelings in the Hopper painting… it’s just not there yet.
Drug Store,1927 – Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Gils Maricopa – CA HIGHWAY by Jeff Brouws
I haven’t seen Brouws’ work in person – so I wonder what the prints might look like. But the images seem promising at least in the web versions.
For me, it’s not in the painterly treatment of a photograph -but perhaps more in the spare, pared down detail, the coloring and the perspective yet flatness that a photograph can produce that lend it more of that emotive quality I’m after.
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Wow, the CA HIGHWAY pic looks totally totally like the “CALCULATORS” pic by Shore. It must be a homage, it’s so similar. (Page 35 of Uncommon Places).
Brouws’ Gils picture does seem familiar in a number of ways. I’m not remembering the Store picture you mention off hand – have to check it out…