Over the past couple of weeks I have accumulated several unique series and themed collections of photographs to assemble into individual posts here on clerkmanifesto. Some of these are continuations of previous styles (like "Seuss" style) now working with new photographs, some are portrait studies of friends run through various interpretations and expressions, some are in the vein of experiments, and some involve new themes or approaches. Trying to begin to organize these collections caused me to come across the series I am featuring today. The truth is I lost these briefly. I have done so much photo work since I made these that I had half forgotten they existed, even though they are surely less than two weeks old. These are photographs taken of portions of Impressionist paintings, some of them among the most famous of that art style, all of them put through a series of reinterpretations.
I have been taking images and reworking them with filters and AI's since the time when these kinds of tools were, frankly, not very good. My excitement for this wizardry has occasionally clouded my judgement and I often find when digging through photos from two or three or four years ago that the effect I used is actually detrimental to my photograph to the point where I often wish I had the original photo from before I messed with it. So now when I am amazed with the sheer magic of what I can do in these images, my enthusiasm is tempered a little knowing I have been humbled in the past. Nevertheless, the reaction I get from other people suggests these tools are magic to more than just me, and the current power of these tools is sufficiently striking that it seems worth sharing here.
With that said, here is a selection of paintings. As a rule we will start with the original picture, usually taken with mixed results from a photo of a page in a book, with me desperately trying to catch a clear image without too much reflection from the page and library lighting. Then you will see a realistic version of the painting- the painting turned into a photographic image. Third, you will see a muppet felted version of the painting, followed last by the Dr. Seuss image version.
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