Visual Inspiration – An Old Master
Posted by photonovice on 22nd January 2009
Photographers often get inspirations from studying other artists’ works. My favorite media for that is still – even in the age of Internet – printed book. Nowadays I often have Ernst H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art, in my hands, which has seen several editions since the fifties, and is available mostly as used copies today.
No, in this book you cannot see magazin shots or commercial photographs from for example Annie Leibovitz, Joe McNally or Chase Jarvis. And yet, I find myself turning back to one or two great paintings of some painters. My current favorite is the Milkmaid from Jan (Johannes) Vermeer.
(I know that his most famous painting is the Girl with a Pearl Earring, but because very few would believe me that the original model of that picture was not Scarlett Johansson I write about some others. 
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