Tag: People
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Mass tourism
Mass tourism Ever tried to look at Monet’s Sunset in its entirity in the Orangerie? Ever climbed up to sunset point on the hill in Luang Prabang? Photos of the week: Claude Monet, Nymphéas (1916-1926) – Soleil couchant, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France 2024;Sunset at Phu Si hill, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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Nymphéas
Nymphéas The 100 metres of water lilies divided over eight canvasses that Monet painted towards the end of his life for the Orangerie are hanging there now for almost 100 years. And like all great art they seem timeless. They haven’t aged. The only thing that has changed over the years is the appearance of…
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Fusion
Fusion Let’s start the New Year in a cheerful mood. Photo of the week: Couple – Takamori Akio, Biennale de la Céramique 2016, Saint-Cergue, Switzerland 2016
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At the hairdresser
At the hairdresser What must be must be, once in a while. Photo of the week: Tibet, Lhasa, China1996
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Smart coats
Smart coats Three little lads on top of the world – their world. Fortunately, they had no time for me. That’s how they’ll remain etched in my memory forever. Photo of the week: Tibet, between Gyantse and Lhasa, China 1996
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The herdsman
The herdsman A cowboy – or rather, a yakboy – who braves the harsh living conditions on the Tibetan Plateau. Photo of the week: Tibet, China 1996
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20.000 years of human activity
20.000 years of human activity Looking, studying, that’s what man has been doing since time immemorial. These two people in the Louvre-Lens look intently at a prehistoric flint object in the shape of a laurel leaf found in Rigny-sur-Arroux (Sâone-et-Loire), France. Around 20.000 years ago a fellow man has done his or her best in…
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Encounter at the ‘galerie du temps’ …
Encounter at the ‘galerie du temps’ … … between the faint reflection of a modern woman and a terracotta figure dating back more than two thousand five hundred years, as I saw it in the magnificent ‘galerie du temps’ at the Louvre-Lens museum in northern France. Photo of the week: Statue-vase in the form of…
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Alberto paints Annette
Alberto paints Annette The fact that the artist (Alberto Giacometti) paints a picture of his wife on this photo by Ernst Scheidegger is nothing special. She was his favourite female model. Still it gives the scene a touch of intimacy, a feeling that is intensified by the incident light in the otherwise dark wooden atmosphere…
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Waiting for you
Waiting for you All set for sunset. Photo of the week: Beach at Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
