Rebecca Reeve Portals into the wilderness — DOP

Rebecca Reeve
Portals into the wilderness

January 27 2015

In her series Marjory’s World, photographer Rebecca Reeve creates portals from the domestic into the wilderness. With a bit of household drapery she evokes a dream-like feeling of looking out of a flying room.

Reeve draws inspiration from a Dutch ritual in the seventeenth century. During the wake of the deceased, it was customary to cover all mirrors, landscape paintings and portraits in the home with cloths. It was believed this would make it easier for the soul to leave the body and subdue any temptations for it to stay in this world.

Edward S. Curtis
The North American Indian 1904 — 1924

Edward S. Curtis shows us an ancient way of life that is about to vanish. And after that the wisdom will be forever lost.

Polynesian Wayfinders
The knowledge of the ancestors

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Kilian Eng
Looking ahead and deep inside

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Suren Manvelyan
Your Beautiful Eyes

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Seeds
Time Capsules of Life

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain

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Moebius
Color work

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Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
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Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.

Jimmy Nelson
Before They Pass Away

The photographer Jimmy Nelson visited 31 secluded and visually unique tribes around the world. The result is huge — in extend and significance.

Adrain Chesser
The Return

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Pete Mauney
A Slice of Eternity

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Tyrone Williams
Beauty hidden in plain sight

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Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group

These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.

Sabin Bălaşa
Dreams of Eternal Blue

Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.

Craig Burrows
The Invisible Light

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Malcolm Kirk
Man as Art

Malcolm Kirk traveled to Papua New Guinea in 1967. He returned repeatedly during the ensuing 13 years, documenting the extraordinary tribal decorations he had observed on that initial trip.

Adrian Fisk
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Noémie Goudal
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Phyllis Galembo
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Alone
in the Wilderness

Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera, this documentary is the modern-day Walden.