Knight and Lempicka

Photographers are not only secretly stealing ideas from older paintings. Many of them haven't any problems to show where they got some of their inspirations. Sometimes they especially honour a painting or an artist.

The British photographer Nick Knight did this with his photo Andromeda.


With this he is showing his respect to the Art Déco painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) quoting her painting Andromeda from 1929.

Ophelia

In an issue of the British style magazine Dazed & Confused can be found a series by the famous photographer Nick Knight presenting Gareth Pugh’s Spring/Summer ‘09 collection.

Interesting is especially this one:


It should be compared with the painting "Ophelia" from 1851.

Its by the English painter John Everett Millais (1829–1896), one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Here not only pose and background are similar, it's even the frame. So it should be called a real quotation.