{"id":56688,"date":"2017-08-30T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56688"},"modified":"2017-08-30T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:00:58","slug":"okay-renaissance-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56688","title":{"rendered":"Okay, Renaissance photography?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — Caravaggio at Berkeley, maybe ]
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So, David Burge<\/strong> has tweeted that this photo looks “like a Renaissance painting of stupid”:<\/p>\n

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First, let’s get Karl Popper<\/strong> out of the way: I don’t think that’s a fa;sifiable statement. But does it ring true for me?<\/p>\n

I’d go with Caravaggio<\/strong>, maybe, a bit of a street-brawler himself, who can project himself into the brawl of the arrest of Christ — <\/p>\n

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— and notice whose hands, fingers interlaced, are calm amid the hurly-burly,<\/p>\n

Caravaggion himself fled Rome to escape a death penalty for murder, perhaps that’s a pre-requisite for his tenebrist<\/strong> style of painting, perhaps not, who knows? And the photographer? Dare I ask? Apparently the photo credit goes to Marcus Yam<\/strong>\/LA Times via Getty Images. <\/p>\n

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The photo again, since it may have risen out of screen, out of mind.<\/p>\n

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The photographer certainly (my view) has an eye for framing, but that’s largely what photography is all about, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

That slashing diagonal — powerful. Who’s the guy standing, left, a bit detached? Not a Buddhist, I think, in that balaclava. Is that individual. isolated, or the entirety of the clash, what Burge sees as painterly — forget the Renaissance for a while here — ?<\/p>\n

Black-clad anarchists attack conservatives at Berkeley rally<\/a> runs the headline in the South Chibna Morning Post<\/strong>, and they’d know, right? South China, Northern Cal..<\/p>\n

I’m weary.<\/p>\n

The brush strokes — there are no brushstrokes in photography. Unless you use an app to put them there. Is there a brish stro0kes equivalent? Chiaroscuro<\/strong> — light-dark contrast — arguably, the sun’s too bright for much of that in Berkeley, and the anarchists’ black will have to make up for it. Not so when Christ is arrested — that’s simply dark, and Caravaggion illuminates the players.<\/p>\n

How much light-dark contrast<\/strong> does the headline’s reference to “black-clad anarchists” add to the viewer’s perception of the image? Is it the word “black” or the word “anarchist” that does it?<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Following the news is a complex affair. <\/p>\n

But a lover affair in any case, if that’s your preference, as it is mine — it gets me from Berkeley and stupidity to Caravaggio and Chirst, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — Caravaggio at Berkeley, maybe ] . So, David Burge has tweeted that this photo looks “like a Renaissance painting of stupid”: ** First, let’s get Karl Popper out of the way: I don’t think that’s a fa;sifiable statement. But does it ring true for me? I’d go with Caravaggio, maybe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,385,788,228,526,497,309,218,778,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","category-beauty","category-biography","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-criminals","category-philosophy","category-photography","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56688"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56702,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56688\/revisions\/56702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}