I was reviewing photographs from my trip to
South Africa late last year and came across reflection
photos from Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum. The entrance has full length photos
of South Africans of all ages and ethnicities, cut out and set against mirrors.
It can be hard distinguishing which are live and which are photos.
Linked to Weekend Reflections.
25 comments:
Interesting idea for a museum display. It is tricky to see which is a cutout and which is a real person.
Very interesting display and funny shot !
I really loved my trips to South Africa. The museums of the history of Apartheid were very sobering, weren't they?
Great capture Jack!
I wonder if there are museums about apartheid in countries other than South Africa. There are holocaust museums in many countries, quite fittingly, and apartheid was properly a worldwide concern.
that is really neat!
What a great and different post for the day and such an interesting place!! I agree with EG, hard to tell the real from the poster!! Hope you have a great weekend, Jack, do try to stay out of trouble!!!
This certainly creates an interesting effect.
Quite a unique effect, Jack!
Really hard to say, but you captured very well this effect!
Great photo. Hard to tell what is there and what is reflection. Image and real blend beautifully.
Hard to tell indeed, and I can imagine how sobering an experience that museum would be.
really neat!
Well this is a good puzzle...
What a great concept! You've done a good job capturing it. A good museum to encourage reflecting - and a good photo for "reflections."
Yes that is difficult to distinguish the reality from the cut out. Very clever idea for a display.
A creative and poignant idea well captured by your camera.
Super shot! Where are you?
Reminds me of work I saw at the Louvre last summer by Michaelangelo Pistoletto: here is a photo I didn't take but have a similar one http://www.hannahtan.com/journal/2013/09/louvre-is-in-the-air/img_2767/ The mirror paintings were so quirky layed out all over the museum, blending in with the crowds. I only saw the ones on the way to Mona Lisa (just like an American tourist :p)
Fascinating!
Interesting.
What a strange intallation... Very intriguing indeed !
What an intriguing picture, Jack!
Very interesting shot Jack. WE have some cut outs down around our downtown area where the Civil Rights marches took place.
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Really cool idea, which makes such an intriguing photo!
Excellent shot Jack, you have to look carefully to see hat's what :) A very bad time in African history that's for sure. When I lived in Central Africa I didn't go to SA once even though it's so beautiful, bad politics!
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