Original
William Lake Price. Don Quixote in His Study.c.1890
Recreation
I like this image because it looks very theatrical and also very normal.
William Lake Price approached photography as high art, he wanted to depict reality as a kind of imagined scene. He constructed elaborately staged scenes from history and literature. He was also a watercolor painter. He attended the Royal Academy before taking up photography in 1854.
In the Original image he has captured Don Quixote in his study amongst a number of his belongings. The image has a sort of vignette effect to it, being darker around the edges and the figure being very highlighted. Everything in the image is in great detail giving the eye much to look at.
I like this image because it looks very theatrical and also very normal.
I tried to recreate this theatrical effect with my image of my husband, Jared, in his "study" by adding the vignette around the his highlighted body. I also wanted everything to be in great detail so we could see what was there. This is obviously a modern take on the original since he is not surrounded by books and antiques but by electronics.
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