Nude Collage of Tiles

It's difficult to decide about this one... Hmm, I think it's because it's a bit overloaded...

As I see this on the computer monitor, I can tell it loses its effect because it needs to be a large wall print. Also, the conversion to j-peg and inclusion on this web site made it lose much of its tonality.

a little bit cubism?

good job!

This is a superb bit of art by any standard or comparison. It would make an extraordinary painting too.

I would be more impressed if it were done in the darkroom rather than the computer. i'll upload one by an artist named David Hockney. it's really amazing.

Thank you for the uploaded work by Hockney. It is good indeed. Was it made by pasting up images and rephotographing? I hope you see that his is a three dimensional photograph with perspective while mine was intended as a two dimensional surface work, hence the word "tiles" in its title.

Tell me why you favor the darkroom over the computer, please. What has the technology to do with the image? Would you favor more the home made emulsion on a glass plate used in a pinhole camera and printed on egg home made albumin paper? Would you like best a photograph made by a blind photographer? Or perhaps be impressed most by a mountain picture made by a one-legged climber?

Let me enter very briefly this debate. I prefer rasberries to strawberries personally, but that is my culinary preference, it does not mean that one fruit is of better quality than the other. I don't really see how one can compare photography to painting or, more recently now, to computer enhanced imaging, unless it is in the final rendering or impact of the image? Both the works posted here are highly imaginative and decorative. Painting has a long history which dates back to paleolothic times. Photography is an evolving science (some may argue painting also) which has a following in its own right. The computer has now opened the door to a new means of expression which, like painting and traditional photography can also be used in the creative process. Why do some object? Is it because the think it's "easier"? It's also "easier" to write a book on the computer than via longhand.

Nice work - it's cool how your're experimeting anf getting out of the box. This is from the album cover of the Talking Heads' "Songs About Buildings and Food" from 1977. It was formed from a zillion polaroids taken by adjusting a tripod in a grid pattern, laying them out and shooting the result. I'm sure if they had Photoshop then they wouldn't have done it that way. It's a pity I couldn't find a larger image, though.

This one is too busy for me. There are too many competing images pulling my eye from one to the next. I do not see a "symphony" here, rather, a cacophy. Perhpas the way to resolve this noise is to get the orchestra to play the same notes. I would choose to remove all mirrored images go with the resulting flow. Everything would cascade in the same direction. But, that is my idea, not yours. To each his own. Perhaps cacophy is what you are looking for, in a symmetrical sort of way.

I just came across this image while  browsing collage/nudes.  I like it very much Jerry!  And...you could have so many derivative images, complete in themselves from the overall composition. 

Linda Carlson