Colour photographs of Picasso painting in light, 1949

5 comments to Colour photographs of Picasso painting in light, 1949

• Lady Crafthole

  November 26, 2011 at 2:02 pm · Reply

  Wonderful wonderful wonderful!

• Dirk

  December 14, 2011 at 5:19 pm · Reply

  Does anyone know how to make such photographs? I mean, the ‘painting with light’ requires a long shuttertime, but that means the painter will be very blurry (which isn’t the case with these photographs).

• Alex

  December 14, 2011 at 9:04 pm · Reply

  Dirk, judging by the way it looks, I’d say he was hit once with a low-power flash at the end of the exposure, so that he was illuminated (and frozen) without blowing out the image completely.

• George Birbilis

  December 16, 2011 at 7:22 pm · Reply

  Alex must be right, see the dark room shot, flash doesn’t light up much there. Also in room with lots of light from window you can see painter twice, once at start pose (maybe was standing for a while though)and at end

• Dirk

  December 17, 2011 at 12:22 pm · Reply

  That sounds quite right, thank you very much! I will experiment with it untill I find the right settings on my old ’70s Canon!