Comments on: Stunning Spread From A 1960′s Harper’s BAZAAR

By: Joseph Powell

Joseph Powell — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:31:00 +0000

I’m sort of amazed at all the comments regarding how mind blowing this is. They’ve been painting out stuff in films almost since the beginning of cinema. Why would photography be any different? If not easier? One shot vs. a million frames. Or two shots if it’s an overlay. They’re called artists. They blend things perfectly. If they could add realistic matte paintings/composite shots to film in the 30′s all the way through to the late 80′s (Sigourney Weaver’s entire apartment building in Ghostbusters II was an oil painting on glass. Painted by hand) why wouldn’t they be able to paint out or overlay a simple cable on a photograph in the 60′s? I’m just asking….

By: mmmarc

mmmarc — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:26:00 +0000

You can also see the giant shadow of the crane in the shot with the little girl looking up at the model

By: Mah Cuzz

Mah Cuzz — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:42:00 +0000

There are refelections of the crane in the bowl in almost every photo…! Look more closely

By: Randy Eugene Nicholson

Randy Eugene Nicholson — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:58:00 +0000

You can see the shadow and the reflection of the crane in two of the shots which most people wouldn’t notice unless they saw the overview shots of how they were doing things. I would be assuming they did the two shots on a tripod as Charles stated. Skills in the darkroom always impresses me more than in photoshop (albeit there are some wonderful photoshop artists).

Very lovely.

By: Matei Botan

Matei Botan — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:52:00 +0000

look at the last shot, and the one above the two explanatory shots, you can se the arm of the crane if you look hard, but that doesn’t ruin the shots for me.

By: Charles Owen

Charles Owen — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:14:00 +0000

The two smaller images show how the ball has a loop on top and hangs from a crane. The ball is actually there, it’s not composited in. They either painted out the wire and loop or they overlaid a second shot without the ball in it to cover. Two shots on a tripod would work just fine. What is amazing to me is that I can’t see any reflection of the crane in any of the shots. Good placement probably made that possible, since painting it out would be hard back then. Also, the thicker ring could be used to block some reflections in some cases.

By: johnbp123

johnbp123 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:25:00 +0000

I’ve always loved these photos. Beautiful on all levels.

By: Raffaella De Amicis

Raffaella De Amicis — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Wow! But I would LOVE to know how this was done. I know “photoshop” could be done by hand on individual prints, but the one on the water is especially fascinating.

By: Brian Boing Photo

Brian Boing Photo — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:16:00 +0000

I agree….great images, but how was this done 50 years ago?

By: heybrooke

heybrooke — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:02:00 +0000

This is amazing. Thank you so much for posting this.