{"slug":"steal-inspiration-style","title":"国际摄影大赛头奖照片竟是偷来的？艺术家如何偷取灵感与风格","author":"Thomas看看世界","date":"2022-08-14","wechat":"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI4NDA5MzE5NQ==&mid=2247495923&idx=1&sn=8d4478d58646ffc69e8bd75310223378&chksm=eb820e97dcf5878102eaa00e16e88bfbe1ba69deb9f0bdc5fcfa336498c8320f2af6bb69e9a7&scene=21#wechat_redirect","blocks":[{"t":"p","x":"毕加索说过：普通的艺术家模仿，优秀的艺术家偷取。","b":false,"xe":"Picasso said: good artists copy, great artists steal."},{"t":"p","x":"什么叫做模仿？什么又叫做艺术家的“偷取”呢？","b":false,"xe":"What is imitation? And what does it mean for an artist to \"steal\"?"},{"t":"p","x":"在今天的摄影教程中，Thomas就会以自己的作品为例，和大家分享模仿与“偷取”的经验。","b":false,"xe":"In today's photography tutorial, Thomas uses his own works as examples to share his experience with imitation and \"stealing\"."},{"t":"p","x":"国家地理大奖作品，背后竟然从这么多的摄影师那吸收了灵感！","b":false,"xe":"Behind this National Geographic award-winning photo lies inspiration absorbed from so many photographers!"},{"t":"h","x":"视频","xe":"Video"},{"t":"bili","bv":"BV1qY4y1c7We","bpic":"bili-1","bt":"国际摄影大赛头奖照片竟是偷来的？摄影师如何学习灵感与风格？"},{"t":"p","x":"这一篇是上面视频的完整图文整理。毕加索那句被乔布斯反复引用的话——「普通的艺术家模仿，好的艺术家偷取」——到底什么意思？Thomas 以自己 2017 年对 Max Rive 的深度模仿、到格陵兰岛国家地理获奖作品的「偷」，完整拆解了模仿与偷取的区别，以及四位摄影师教会他的事。","xe":"This is the fully illustrated companion to the video above. What did Picasso — the line Steve Jobs loved to quote — really mean by \"good artists copy, great artists steal\"? Using his own 2017 deep imitation of Max Rive and the \"stealing\" behind his National Geographic award-winning Greenland series, Thomas breaks down the difference between copying and stealing, and what four photographers taught him."},{"t":"img","f":"v01","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"先看总览。上面这张要点页截自视频 1:55 处：模仿，是对某一位艺术家的题材、色彩、风格进行深度仿制；偷，则是对多个艺术家的作品吸收消化、融会贯通、组合式创新，再结合自身的特长、经验和创作。一句话记住：偷，一定不能只偷一位。","xe":"Start with the overview. The slide above, captured at 1:55 in the video: imitation is a deep copy of one artist's subjects, colors and style; stealing means absorbing and digesting the work of many artists, blending them into a combinatorial innovation, then fusing in your own strengths, experience and creation. Remember one line: never steal from just one artist."},{"t":"h","x":"01 模仿：天花板就是被模仿的人","xe":"01 Imitation: Your Ceiling Is the Artist You Copy"},{"t":"p","x":"Thomas 坦白，自己 2017 年的作品就是对荷兰山地摄影师 Max Rive 的一次深度模仿。先看 Max Rive 的两张全景接片：人站在山巅与太阳互动，背后是极其广阔的风景（视频 0:28 处）。Thomas 依葫芦画瓢，同样一个人站在广阔风景中，同样用全景接片拍摄，后期也调成同样的蓝橙魔幻色调（视频 0:48 处）。","xe":"Thomas admits it outright: his 2017 work was a deep imitation of the Dutch mountain photographer Max Rive. Look at two of Rive's panoramas — a figure on a summit interacting with the sun, a vast landscape behind (at 0:28 in the video). Thomas copied the recipe wholesale: one person in a vast landscape, shot as a panorama, graded into the same magical blue-orange tones (at 0:48 in the video)."},{"t":"img","f":"v02","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v03","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"另一组模仿更彻底：Max Rive 喜欢拍清晨色调、暗黑风格，取入枯树作前景，让枯树的生命力和山地呼应——Thomas 在印尼布罗莫火山拍出了类似的作品，色调、题材、风格都非常相似，发表时很多人以为就是 Max Rive 拍的（视频 1:18 处）。这说明模仿非常成功、学习非常到位；但问题也很明显：模仿痕迹太重，而且你的天花板就是被模仿的那位摄影师，你始终没有形成自己的风格（视频 1:45 处）。","xe":"Another imitation went further: Max Rive loves early-morning tones and dark moods, framing dead trees as foregrounds so their lingering life echoes the mountains — Thomas produced a strikingly similar image at Mount Bromo in Indonesia, so close in tone, subject and style that many thought Rive had shot it (at 1:18 in the video). Proof the imitation succeeded; but the problem is obvious: the imitation is visible, your ceiling is the photographer you copied, and you never develop a style of your own (at 1:45 in the video)."},{"t":"img","f":"v04","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"02 偷：从多位艺术家各取一块","xe":"02 Stealing: Take One Piece from Each of Many"},{"t":"p","x":"所以要从模仿升级到偷。偷的含义是：从多位艺术家那里吸收创作灵感、创作经验、某一部分视觉风格，融会贯通后组合创新，再结合自身的特长经验进行处理（视频 2:05 处）。Thomas 拿自己获国家地理大奖的格陵兰岛作品现身说法：如果不说，你完全看不出它参考了谁——这正是偷与模仿的区别（视频 2:55 处）。","xe":"So upgrade from imitation to stealing. To steal means absorbing the creative ideas, the experience, a slice of the visual style from several artists, blending them into a combinatorial innovation, and processing it all through your own strengths and experience (at 2:05 in the video). Thomas uses his National Geographic award-winning Greenland work as the case: unstated, no one can tell who it references — that is exactly how stealing differs from imitating (at 2:55 in the video)."},{"t":"img","f":"v05","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"03 四位老师：色彩、峡湾、冰雪与情绪","xe":"03 Four Teachers: Color, Fjords, Snow and Mood"},{"t":"p","x":"第一位老师是俄罗斯风光摄影师 Daniel Kordan。无论夜景、白天还是日出日落，他的影调都非常柔和，暗部绝对没有死黑，常用很高的暗部曲线加大量柔化，色彩梦幻、饱和度整体偏高（视频 3:20 处）——这套色彩最终用进了格陵兰组照。第二位是老朋友 Max Rive：Thomas 最早就是看他的峡湾风光知道格陵兰的，更大的影响是学会了在风光中取入人、人的物品、人的建筑，让作品的故事更丰富、意义更深远（视频 3:56 处）。","xe":"Teacher one: the Russian landscape photographer Daniel Kordan. Day or night, sunrise or sunset, his tonality stays soft, shadows never crush to black — a high shadow curve and heavy softening — with dreamy, rather saturated colors (at 3:20 in the video). That palette went straight into the Greenland series. Teacher two is the old friend Max Rive: Thomas first learned of Greenland through Rive's fjord images, and the deeper lesson was to include people, their belongings and buildings in landscapes, enriching the story and deepening the meaning (at 3:56 in the video)."},{"t":"img","f":"v06","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v07","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"第三位是冰岛摄影师 Benjamin Hardman，拍极简风格，作品干净、简洁。从他身上 Thomas 学到雪天的可能性——以前去格陵兰都是夏天，冬天的雪拍出来非常安静、非常简洁（视频 4:28 处）。第四位是美国摄影师 Todd Hido，常拍城市郊区的夜景，用灯光带来情绪，还爱用雾天、雨天、雪天这些特殊天气——天气加夜景灯光，能给照片带来极其强烈的情绪（视频 4:56 处）。","xe":"Teacher three: the Iceland-based photographer Benjamin Hardman, a minimalist whose work is immaculately clean. From him Thomas learned what snow can do — Greenland trips had always been in summer, but winter snow photographs quiet and minimal (at 4:28 in the video). Teacher four: the American photographer Todd Hido, who shoots suburban nights, letting lamps carry the emotion, and loves special weather — fog, rain, snow — which together with night lights charges a photograph with intense mood (at 4:56 in the video)."},{"t":"img","f":"v08","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v09","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"04 融会：格陵兰风格的三级演变","xe":"04 The Fusion: Three Stages in Greenland"},{"t":"p","x":"把这些一点点融进自己的创作。2017 年，Thomas 的格陵兰风格完全是 Max Rive 的峡湾题材加魔幻色调（视频 5:35 处）；2018 年开始尝试冬天进岛，拍出类似 Benjamin Hardman 的极简、干净、冰雪中的作品（视频 5:45 处）；后来他发现格陵兰的小镇深受环境影响、充满独特氛围，于是用上 Todd Hido 的技术——拍暗黑风格的夜景题材，取入十字架这类特殊意象和符号，表现浓烈的情绪（视频 6:08 处）。","xe":"Then fold these into your own work, stage by stage. In 2017, Thomas's Greenland style was entirely Max Rive — fjord subjects in magical tones (at 5:35 in the video). In 2018 he began visiting in winter, producing minimalist, clean, snowbound images in Benjamin Hardman's spirit (at 5:45 in the video). Later he noticed how deeply the island's small towns are shaped by their environment, brimming with unique atmosphere — so he applied Todd Hido's techniques: dark night subjects, special symbols like the cross, intense emotion (at 6:08 in the video)."},{"t":"img","f":"v10","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"转折点是在格陵兰西北部探索时发现了乌佩纳维克等小村庄（视频 6:33 处）。他选择在冬天、用冰雪拍出干净的氛围，同时像 Max Rive 一样取入人的元素；色彩影调则更多参考 Daniel Kordan——因为他对格陵兰的理解不是绝望或与世隔绝，而是在冰天雪地里人们依然坚强地生活着、团结在一起，非常温暖（视频 6:54 处）。所以他没有用 Todd Hido 那种色彩，而是用 Kordan 的色彩去呈现自己心中的格陵兰。","xe":"The turning point came exploring northwest Greenland, where he found Upernavik and other small villages (at 6:33 in the video). He chose winter, using ice and snow for a clean atmosphere, included human elements as Max Rive would, and leaned on Daniel Kordan for color and tonality — because his Greenland is not despair or isolation, but people living on, together and warm, in the middle of all that ice (at 6:54 in the video). So he skipped Todd Hido's palette and used Kordan's colors to show the Greenland he believed in."},{"t":"img","f":"v11","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"最终就有了这组获奖作品（视频 7:19 处）。用视频里那张总结页来说：国家地理大奖作品 = 偷 Max Rive 的目的地（格陵兰）和人物与风景的拍法，偷 Daniel Kordan 的色彩和影调，偷 Todd Hido 的灯光和情绪，偷 Benjamin Hardman 的冰雪和简洁，再加上许多其他摄影师、艺术家的灵感与风格元素，最后融合个人的探索和理解（视频 7:26 处）。不说，就没人看得出参考了谁——这才是偷的真正含义。","xe":"The result was the award-winning series (at 7:19 in the video). In the video's own summary: the National Geographic grand-prize work = stolen from Max Rive, the destination Greenland and the way figures meet landscapes; from Daniel Kordan, color and tonality; from Todd Hido, lamps and emotion; from Benjamin Hardman, snow and simplicity; plus inspiration from many other photographers and artists — all fused with personal exploration and understanding (at 7:26 in the video). Left unsaid, nobody spots the references — that is what stealing truly means."},{"t":"img","f":"v12","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"05 持续的偷：从火车看中国到微光","xe":"05 Keep Stealing: From Trains to Glimmers"},{"t":"p","x":"这套方法一直在用。Thomas 近期的「火车看中国」组图和「微光」主题作品，同样偷取、参考了大量艺术家的灵感、风格和元素，再结合他自己在中国的拍摄、对当下这个时代的理解，才最终成型（视频 8:30 处）。他也留了个互动问题：你能从这两组作品里看出哪些摄影师或艺术家的影子？欢迎在评论区写出你的答案。","xe":"The method never stopped. Thomas's recent series \"Seeing China by Train\" and the \"Glimmer\" works likewise steal from and reference many artists' ideas, styles and elements, fused with his shooting across China and his read of this era, before they took shape (at 8:30 in the video). He leaves a question: which photographers or artists can you spot in those two series? Leave your guesses in the comments."},{"t":"p","x":"最后再记住这句话：普通的艺术家模仿，好的艺术家偷取。真正的偷取，一定是融会贯通、组合创新，同时结合自己的经历和特长来进行创作（视频 9:06 处）——对你的摄影艺术提升来说，这是非常好的学习方法。","xe":"End with the line one more time: good artists copy, great artists steal. True stealing is always digestion and recombination into something new, created through your own experience and strengths (at 9:06 in the video) — for growing as a photographic artist, it is one of the best learning methods there is."},{"t":"img","f":"v13","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"quote","x":"1. 模仿是对一位艺术家的题材、色彩、风格深度仿制——学得越像，天花板越低；2. 偷是从多位艺术家各取灵感、经验与部分视觉风格，融会贯通、组合创新，再结合自身特长与经历；3. Thomas 的国家地理获奖作品，分别偷了 Max Rive 的目的地与人物、Daniel Kordan 的色彩影调、Todd Hido 的灯光情绪、Benjamin Hardman 的冰雪简洁，外加个人在格陵兰的探索理解；4. 偷得高明的检验标准：不说，没人看得出来。","xe":"1. Imitation is a deep copy of one artist's subjects, colors and style — the better the copy, the lower the ceiling; 2. Stealing takes ideas, experience and fragments of visual style from many artists, blends them into combinatorial innovation, and filters them through your own strengths and life; 3. Thomas's National Geographic work stole the destination and figure-in-landscape approach from Max Rive, color and tonality from Daniel Kordan, lamps and mood from Todd Hido, snow and minimalism from Benjamin Hardman — plus his own Greenland explorations; 4. The test of stealing well: unannounced, nobody can tell."},{"t":"h","x":"高清视频：","xe":"HD video:"},{"t":"p","x":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qY4y1c7We/","b":false,"xe":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qY4y1c7We/"},{"t":"h","x":"PPT","xe":"PPT"},{"t":"img","f":"img-01","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-02","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-03","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-04","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-05","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-06","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-07","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-08","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-09","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-10","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-11","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-12","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-13","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-14","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-15","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-16","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-17","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-18","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-19","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-20","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-21","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-22","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-23","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-24","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-25","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-26","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-27","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-28","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-29","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-30","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-31","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-32","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"h","x":"点此查看其他400篇摄影教程目录","xe":"Click here to browse the directory of 400 other photography tutorials"}],"titleEn":"Stolen Inspiration: How Artists Steal Ideas and Style"}