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Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Samuel Falls

By Alice on October 22, 2007 1:58 PM

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Early Morning Rainbow by aspiring HS Samuel Falls

I, surprisingly, have not seen a photograph of a rainbow in a very long time, so I give you today's pick from the entry pool, Samuel Falls. On the work Falls says, "My hope is to create images that rely on the tangible natural reality of the pastoral and human’s historical relationship to landscapes while tuning in to an imaginative world which exists in our imaginations, constructed by literature, painting, and music."

On hiatus from the ICP-Bard MFA program, Falls remains in mega-production mode -- taking long weekends in Vermont with the good old Graflex Speed Graphic in tow and a bus load of inspiration coming from...

Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks
Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Jean-Honore Fragonard in general
Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice
And [of course] Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and (9)

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