How to disappear completely

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Talking to a friend recently about Photoshop reminded me of this picture experiment I made a couple of years ago. The photo above was a Prague street scene (no other details known) that I cut from a newspaper. I liked the atmosphere of the narrow street but couldn’t help wondering how it would look without all those people standing there. After some diligent copying and pasting I ended up with the version you see below. You can view it at a larger size here.

Previously on { feuilleton }
Karel Plicka’s views of Prague
Atget’s Paris

The art of Arik Roper

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Semyaza (2007).

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Witch Banner (2006): Witch South x Southwest banner.

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Eyehategod NYC (2005): NYC show poster.

Arik Roper produces much band artwork and design (including for Boris who I’ve been listening to a lot this week). He’s also part of the splendid Arthur posse. Go thou to his work and marvel.

Previously on { feuilleton }
Underground history
Barney Bubbles: artist and designer

Charles Le Brun’s physiognomies

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L: Relationship of the Human Figure with that of the Eagle.
R: Relationship of the Human Figure with that of the Ram.

From Dissertation sur un Traité de Charles Lebrun concernant le apport de la Physionomie Humaine avec Celle des Animaux (1806), in which the First Painter to Louis XIV attempted to demonstrate a correlation between the souls of men and the appearances of animals. See the complete set of engravings (by L-J-M Morel d’Arleux) here.

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
The etching and engraving archive