by dbeat Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:03 pm
philipchevron wrote:dbeat wrote:You know, the classic man at the window. Just wondering the photographer, if anyone knows...?
It's a mash-up of Spider Stacty's back view and an iconic image of Sammy Davis Jr photographed in New York in 1959, but I'm afraid I can't recall who did either the original pic or the Spider version.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=sammy+ ... 29,r:3,s:0
oh. man, i'm looking pretty ignorant now, yeesh. and i call myself a photographer and a fan of the rat pack. Either way, the original is great and the revamp is a good use of appropriation (which is usually a bad word, with good reason). Hopefully either artist will surface...
[quote="philipchevron"][quote="dbeat"]You know, the classic man at the window. Just wondering the photographer, if anyone knows...?[/quote]
It's a mash-up of Spider Stacty's back view and an iconic image of Sammy Davis Jr photographed in New York in 1959, but I'm afraid I can't recall who did either the original pic or the Spider version.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=sammy+davis+jr+photo+at+window&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4ADFA_enGB449GB449&biw=1304&bih=543&tbm=isch&tbnid=4kWY8TNLnSrV1M:&imgrefurl=http://exitsomewhere.tumblr.com/page/2&docid=6VqrUQtTF0BfGM&imgurl=http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l08ih5IWzQ1qah2gqo1_500.jpg&w=472&h=700&ei=jKXkTqW1AZG7hAfNj_32AQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=642&vpy=79&dur=7825&hovh=274&hovw=184&tx=119&ty=300&sig=114956222682673701168&page=1&tbnh=168&tbnw=113&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0[/quote]
oh. man, i'm looking pretty ignorant now, yeesh. and i call myself a photographer and a fan of the rat pack. Either way, the original is great and the revamp is a good use of appropriation (which is usually a bad word, with good reason). Hopefully either artist will surface...
