Knowing Where to Stand … Three Inspirations...Jean-Francois Millet 1868-75 Monet 1890s Think...
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(…and where to point the camera)Hearst Mining Bldg UC Berkeley
—Julia Morgan
Ferry Bldg SF
Knowing Where to Stand …
Three Inspirations
George Wray
UI Art Professor
Claude Monet
Impressionist
Anne Whiston Spirn
MIT Landscape Professor
Palouse sky, August 1982, George Wray
George Wray
August 1982
August 1982 August 1982
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September 1982 October 1982
November 1982 December 1982
December 1982 February 1983
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March 1983 April 1983
August 1983Self-portrait 1886—Photograph 1898
Claude Monet
Monet’s house, Giverny, 1905 Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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Grainstacks as the romantic
landscape painters saw them
and as Monet saw them…
Jean-Francois Millet 1868-75
Monet 1890s
Think Jean-Francois Millet’s romantic version of
the grainstacks commands a similar market?
Sunrise Sunset
Thaw, sunset Spring, midday
Summer, sunset End of summer, late afternoon
Autumn, end of day Winter, sunset, snow effect
Winter, snow effect, gray day Winter, midday
Winter, gray day Winter, sunset
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Winter, snow effect, sunlight Winter, morning
Photograph, black and white Winter, overcast
Monet sketch 1892
Photograph, 1890s
Rouen Cathedral
Monet 1892-4—Hotin 1892
Morning effect Morning effect Gray day
Morning effect Midmorning Midday
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Early afternoon Afternoon Sunset
Hiroshige vs. Photo vs. Monet
Waterloo Bridge &
Charring Cross Bridge
Oatfields
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Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF
Anne Whiston Spirn
Where to stand?
How to frame?
Where to look?
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Subtle Difference
View Angle
Light & shadow
What to crop?
What sky conditions?
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Day or night?