david.travis has added a photo to the pool:
This is an homage to another Magritte painting titled "The Son of Man" (Le fils de l'homme).
Magritte's painting has an apple obscuring the face; I used an iPhone with a picture of his painting instead.
According to Wikipedia, Magritte said this about the painting: "At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
I love that quotation as it sounds so profound -- but when you unpack it, he's said nothing really. My view is that it's more to do with identify, like his other painting I reproduced.
ODC: A pleasing background.
Strobist: Canon 580EXII in a 60-inch umbrella to camera left, triggered by Yongnuo 603s.
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