Man With Warhol’s Elvis at MoMA, 2007
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Man With Warhol’s Elvis at MoMA
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2 responses to “Man With Warhol’s Elvis at MoMA”
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Wow! That is SO great! This is so strong compositionally as well as the dialogue between Warhol, the person standing there, and Elvis-as-icon. It’s like the man standing there has become an icon, too. And the contrasts of their faces, Elvis, intense ferocious look, the man looking pleasant, amused. When I was looking at some of your other MoMA photos at your flicker site, there was another one that had also caught my attention. It had a young woman on the left (I think it was a young woman), right on the edge of the picture plane so that she was half in and half out. And the art that was completely within the photo was a surrealist work, I’m now totally blanking on his name. Arrgh. I had remembered it last night. Magritte. I had to look it up. All I could remember was surrealist and Belgian. Anyway, it was as if the woman on the left was a part of the surrealist world of the painting, that point being emphasized by the framing of your photo itself and then the painting on the wall within the photo.
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Thank you.
I love this guy, too. Plus here he stands beside Elvis with his gun and is holding his wife’s bag. Yes, many men carry bags–Marty quite often carries a tote bag and H.o.p. is growing up feeling comfortable with carrying a bag (he has always so much to carry along with him)–but this man was holding his wife or girlfriend’s bag while she took the picture and he’s having such a great time, it seems, there seems to be a lot of humor in it for him.
The He Man Elvis with his gun beside the amused man holding the bag.
I had to go back and look for the other picture because it had slipped out of my mind, not ending up being one of my favorites. I prefer another where a woman is half in and half out of the picture frame in relation to a Picasso.
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