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Surreal

Challenge #12 in the Untitled series. Hosted by T bird.

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Submit a Surreal Photograph - having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic. Surreal photography is difficult to define but as the host I will disqualify anything that I don't feel qualifies. I apologize ahead of time as I suspect I will need to delete many of the entries.

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Talk to the hands

by microsurgeon

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Submitted:	Sunday, 6th March, 2016 22:20 (GMT)
Taken:	Thursday, 1st January, 2105
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Total comments: 16

I like the beard ;)

Very well done

1 upvote

Great Concept..!!!!
This could be very useful as a Poster Boy for Divorce or Depression..!
And, who knows?
Maybe also for Men's Erectile Dysfunction Campaign too.
Or...
Trump..President...?

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Nice, but I would not call it creative. It is a very common trick.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/15481663/Hands-over-face-Trick-Photography

http://ttigran.com/

Edited 6 minutes after posting

2 upvotes

Oh well :-(

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Shakespeare and Picasso stole from other artists all their lives. The latter even proudly proclaimed to do so. The value of their work resides into their execution. Here microsurgeon completes the portrait with a forehead and it links it to a real human. But who?
The idea of someone borrowing possibly another person's identity as translated here introduces some mystery in the shot. The closer to total ambiguity the better I believe.
Regards
Jean

Edited 2 times; latest 7 minutes since posting

1 upvote

Thanks for sharing the links. You are right, the winner did most likely not invent this trick, but I think he executed it extremely well, also compared to the ones you shared.
And then, show me a photographic creation that is truly original...

3 upvotes

Yeah, it was a good and worthy winner. Maybe just wanted take down the extremely high praises a bit :)

2 upvotes

I originally thought the photo was going to be disqualified.

0 upvotes

On what grounds?

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Why would you want to take the high praise down a bit? That is about as petty as one can get, says a lot about your character. Jealous much?

It's a great image and as already mentioned it was executed better than most.

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Too much is made out of this. There was praise for the image - fair enough. Its nice. There was praise on creativeness. But - I did know that this is old stuff - so I said so. Maybe the beard thing is creative. Or maybe it just happened. So ...

Nice image, fun with the beard!

1 upvote

Very creative, congratulations.

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Exceptional. Simply exceptional.

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Well done and very creative.

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Absolutely amazing picture! Well earned 1st place.

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