Bonus points for those who can correctly identify the original photographer...
http://www.mikestimpson.com/gallery/107329
Colorwave
Nov 2 2009, 01:54 AM
Richard Avedon, of course. Wait, I mean Ansel Adams. No, what I meant to say was Charles C. Ebbets. How am I doing?
Who would have thought, when we were playing with them as kids, that you could make a career out of shooting Lego, or that there would ever be professional Lego builders? If I only knew then, what I know now . . .
EricM
Nov 2 2009, 09:21 AM
Somehow Stimson's version doesn't give me the feeling of vertigo I get looking at Ebbets' original.
I wonder if Stimson has done Adams' "Moonrise over Hernandez", or Weston's "Pepper #30" in Lego.
I could only identify five of them from memory. Number seven still has me stumped...
You're right about the Ebbets original. I still shudder when looking at it.
1. Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper - Charles C. Ebbets
2. Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare - Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. V–J day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt
4. Tiananmen Square - Jeff Widener
5. Bed-In - unknown
6. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Joe Rosenthal
7. Madrid - not sure about this one but I've seen the image before
8. Viet Cong Captain - Eddie Adams
9. Monk on Fire - Malcolm Browne
10. The Walk to Paradise Garden - W. Eugene Smith
11. Bigfoot - Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin
12. Tennis Girl - Martin Elliott
13. Falling Soldier - Robert Capa
14. Moon landing - Neil Armstrong
15. Dali Atomicus - Philippe Halsman
tom b
Nov 3 2009, 06:43 PM
QUOTE (JBM @ Nov 4 2009, 09:11 AM)

I could only identify five of them from memory. Number seven still has me stumped...
You're right about the Ebbets original. I still shudder when looking at it.
1. Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper - Charles C. Ebbets
2. Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare - Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. V–J day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt
4. Tiananmen Square - Jeff Widener
5. Bed-In - unknown
6. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Joe Rosenthal
7. Madrid - not sure about this one but I've seen the image before
8. Viet Cong Captain - Eddie Adams
9. Monk on Fire - Malcolm Browne
10. The Walk to Paradise Garden - W. Eugene Smith
11. Bigfoot - Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin
12. Tennis Girl - Martin Elliott
13. Falling Soldier - Robert Capa
14. Moon landing - Neil Armstrong
15. Dali Atomicus - Philippe Halsman
5. Bed-in – Gerry Deiter
7. Madrid – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cheers,