Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Granny and Peter by van Eyck

Thomas has FINALLY downloaded all the pictures he took in England off his phone, and I have to say that they're pretty stunning.  It's almost galling to see how good they are given that he's a little pipsqueak and he took them with a phone.  But it's almost as if the England he visited was a post-apocalyptic one entirely devoid of human life, for all the people that aren't in the pictures.  In fact, there is exactly one picture where people form the focus of the picture, and (to my mind) it's one of the best portrait pictures I've ever seen.  Here it is: