{"id":20869,"date":"2021-06-22T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20869"},"modified":"2021-06-19T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T19:50:10","slug":"hi-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hi-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"hi Norman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20872\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rockwellphotos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20872\" class=\"wp-image-20872 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rockwellphotos-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">how to paint by photograph &#8211; courtesy of Open Culture<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. As a kid I loved reading back issues of the <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em> while waiting at Nels MaGee&#8217;s for my bi-weekly hair cut. \u00a0Most exciting to me was when the cover used a Norman Rockwell painting.<\/p>\n<p>The web site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\">Open Culture<\/a>, back on February 9th of this year printed an article &#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/02\/how-norman-rockwell-used-photographs-to-create-his-famous-paintings.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons<\/a>&#8221; showing that Rockwell&#8217;s ideas of American life existed only in his mind and that his famous paintings often originated from meticulously posed photos and &#8216;street scenes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Just another American gem uncovered by good friend George Dunbar in his pursuit of photographic history via the internet. Thanks for sharing, George!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. As a kid I loved reading back issues of the Saturday Evening Post while waiting at Nels MaGee&#8217;s for my bi-weekly hair cut. \u00a0Most exciting to me was when the cover used a Norman Rockwell painting. The web site, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hi-norman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2288,102,3727,1754,495,3726],"class_list":["post-20869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cover","tag-magazine","tag-open-culture","tag-painting","tag-photograph","tag-rockwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20876,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions\/20876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}