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Diego Velazquez, along with Goya, is one of my favorite classical painters. they both had a surreal and very stylized idea of what a work of art should be.


This one image, though, is an attempt at art imitating art. It's a recreation of Las Meninas by Velazquez done by Joel-Peter Witkin. And I have to say that this is one of his less disturbing photographs, he loved the macabre and enjoyed tickling our voyeur bone with his morbid images of mostly bondage.

Source: Fotodoc

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Image by the incredible illustrator Neil Duerden, found through the Computerlove website.

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Public Records Building in Basel, Switzerland, by EM2N.

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Image: Joseph Harrington, The Beck Group

Joseph Harrington from the Beck Group won a mention in the 33rd annual KRob Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition. For some reason the actual winners don't appeal to me as much as this image here. The winners' images are colder, more digital in nature, this one is much warmer, more human. You can see that a person was involved in making this, against a more machined image. The image won an honorable mention in the Professional Digital / Hybrid category. Please be sure to check out the website, where you can find this year's winners along with the honorable mentions.

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lj_scampo - "intricacies"

A Wonderful long exposure by one of our own Flickr Artists, lj_scampo. I find myself trying to identify anything familiar, you know it's a human body, but is male or female, is it light or dark.

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"Santo Paseo",Pedro Meyer

"This image is a representation of what would otherwise be a story, as told by ancestors who recreate myths of events that allegedly occurred at some moment in time."