Man and the Sea (Photographs by Gustave Le Gray)

Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray (August 30, 1820 - July 30, 1884) has been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making".
Music by Eno/Budd, 'Steal Away'.

"Free man, you will always cherish the sea!
The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul
In the infinite unrolling of its billows;
Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.
You like to plunge into the bosom of your image;
You embrace it with eyes and arms, and your heart
Is distracted at times from its own clamoring
By the sound of this plaint, wild and untamable.
Both of you are gloomy and reticent:
Man, no one has sounded the depths of your being;
O Sea, no person knows your most hidden riches,
So zealously do you keep your secrets!
Yet for countless ages you have fought each other
Without pity, without remorse,
So fiercely do you love carnage and death,
O eternal fighters, implacable brothers!"

Charles Baudelaire

Category:

Education

Tags:

• sea
• photography

[warspite2]

Nice relaxing video

[Molldelos]

Excellent travail.

Tu as vraiment un don por trouver des photos pour les vidéos !

merci.

[Teocalli75]

Simple / Posé sur le regard. Beau , très beau. Merci.

[Malalma76]

Queste immagini sono un vero squarcio verso l'infinito, splendidamente introdotte dai versi di Baudelaire. E Baudelaire sa quanto l'infinito che è in noi sia sublime e quanto sia lacerante... ed amaro... proprio come il mare...

Non conoscevo nemmeno questo fotografo, eppure alcune immagini sembra che già fossero dentro di me, come quella a 1:14.

Grazie infinite ^_^

[almacattleya]

Stupende e altamente poetiche