{"id":4126,"date":"2021-02-26T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2021-02-26T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:33:45","slug":"visual-memory-at-work-and-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Visual memory at work and play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often as I wander through the <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/FT\/Sand.html\">recent sand photographs<\/a> I&#8217;m reminded of other images seen long ago:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50975598913\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"23ii2134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50975598913_aba80fdbfc.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"23ii2134\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nis eerily reminiscent of Edward Weston&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/54301\">torso of Neil<\/a>, and these two reference some of the same general midriffy territory:<center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50975571738\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"23ii2131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50975571738_c7a9fe3796.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"23ii2131\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50977235278\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"24ii2108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50977235278_98254c6965.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"24ii2108\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>and this one reminds me of Rodin&#8217;s Gates of Hell, in its Stanford incarnation:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/45382339132\/in\/photolist-2c9hmjY-21hbYe8-NtYDMZ-rNxxmY-kakXpt-6ZFHQg-6ZKHFC\" title=\"bas relief of the damned\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1902\/45382339132_5d3a7fe493.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" alt=\"bas relief of the damned\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(a detail from the Stanford Museum version)<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/7165108563\/in\/photolist-ccwjjj-bVa49x-bVa81g-bVa33r-ccurMJ-bV8chp-ccuqSd-bV89DV-ccuoJb-ccuq8U-cctJcE-cctKSW-cctG2A-bV7sdK-bV7mW6-bV7tUe-cctFw3-cctGyw-bV7q7B-bV7yk4\" title=\"Rodin&#x27;s Gates of Hell detail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8016\/7165108563_ef4693a9b5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Rodin&#x27;s Gates of Hell detail\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often as I wander through the recent sand photographs I&#8217;m reminded of other images seen long ago: is eerily reminiscent of Edward Weston&#8217;s torso of Neil, and these two reference some of the same general midriffy territory: and this one reminds me of Rodin&#8217;s Gates of Hell, in its Stanford incarnation: (a detail from 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