Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait Turned Into a Photograph

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Michael Zhang · Jan 12, 2013

If photography had been around in the 19th century, would Vincent van Gogh have been a photographer instead of a master painter? Would he have created his self-portraits using a camera instead of a brush?

Photographer Tadao Cern recently decided to explore what Van Gogh’s work would look like as photography instead of painting, taking one of the artist’s most famous self-portraits and using Photoshoppery to transform it into a still photo.Here’s the painting he started out with:

…and here’s the photograph Cern came up with:

Crazy, huh?

Check out this video that shows how the conversion was done:

Here’s what Cern tells us about the project:

I recreated one of the most famous Vincent Van Gogh self portraits as a photography using DSLR and ‘some’ Photoshop tricks. The idea came spontaneously – I saw my friend that has ginger hair and beard and thought that it would be very funny to make a portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

He liked the idea and a week later we met in my studio. After some preparation work we made few shots and after a day of editing the final image I posted it …

By: Michael Zhang

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