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(…and where to point the camera)Hearst Mining Bldg UC Berkeley

—Julia Morgan

Ferry Bldg SF

Knowing Where to Stand …

Three Inspirations

George Wray

UI Art Professor

Claude Monet

Impressionist

Anne Whiston Spirn

MIT Landscape Professor

Palouse sky, August 1982, George Wray

George Wray

August 1982

August 1982 August 1982

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September 1982 October 1982

November 1982 December 1982

December 1982 February 1983

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March 1983 April 1983

August 1983Self-portrait 1886—Photograph 1898

Claude Monet

Monet’s house, Giverny, 1905 Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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Grainstacks as the romantic

landscape painters saw them

and as Monet saw them…

Jean-Francois Millet 1868-75

Monet 1890s

Think Jean-Francois Millet’s romantic version of

the grainstacks commands a similar market?

Sunrise Sunset

Thaw, sunset Spring, midday

Summer, sunset End of summer, late afternoon

Autumn, end of day Winter, sunset, snow effect

Winter, snow effect, gray day Winter, midday

Winter, gray day Winter, sunset

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Winter, snow effect, sunlight Winter, morning

Photograph, black and white Winter, overcast

Monet sketch 1892

Photograph, 1890s

Rouen Cathedral

Monet 1892-4—Hotin 1892

Morning effect Morning effect Gray day

Morning effect Midmorning Midday

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Early afternoon Afternoon Sunset

Hiroshige vs. Photo vs. Monet

Waterloo Bridge &

Charring Cross Bridge

Oatfields

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Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF

Anne Whiston Spirn

Where to stand?

How to frame?

Where to look?

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Subtle Difference

View Angle

Light & shadow

What to crop?

What sky conditions?

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Day or night?