Larmes de Verre (Glass Tears) tribute to Man Ray by thixen
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Larmes (Tears; aka Larmes de Verre (Glass Tears)) is a photograph created between 1930 and 1932 by the American photographer Man Ray. The image was published in the December 1935 issue of the surrealist art magazine Minotaur, though a cropped image of a single eye had appeared in a 1934 book of Ray's photographs.[1] A print of Larmes is held in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.[2]
The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears. Differing interpretations have been given for the meaning of the photograph. Art historian Erin C. Garcia wrote that Ray "emulated the melodrama that compensated for the lack of dialogue in silent films" in Larmes and likened the model's eyes to "insect-like creatures with hundreds of legs", and another critic wondered whether the image was "ridiculing female crocodile tears, or pouring scorn on the men who are taken in by such sentimentalism"
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmes
I found the image "Larmes de Verre" while looking for inspiration for a new image. The model is just a dialed in V4 just to avoid weird lighting shapes on the forehead, the actual face zoomed out is quite hideous since I was only looking for what the eyes and forehead would be like, Just like the original the 'tears' are glass spheres placed on the cheeks. I wanted a bit of a vintage look to both the color and the black and white version so a film response of KodaChrome 64 was applied in Lux Render and that was further processed in Photoshop to create the Black and White version.
Comments (3)
longprong
Very nice.....thanks for the interesting background :)
ArtistKimberly
Delightfully Beautiful Work,
giulband
Great and beautiful tribute to one of most interesting artist and photographer !!