THE HEMINGWAY CONDITION
A VISUAL CHRONOLOGY RECAST USING TECHNOLOGY
photos by Stefan Pinto
“I could never be Hemingway. This is what pretending looks like.” - Stefan Pinto
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What you’re looking at is a photographic essay exploring the image of Ernest Hemingway across time but using my own likeness as the constant. I used actual, existing photos of Hemingway as the basis for each of the shots. In some (maybe two) instances, I opted to use my own body’s physicality instead of Hemingway’s.
But, what happens when you apply an old-world code (discipline, restraint, physicality, observation) to a modern life and document the result without romanticizing it?
Hemingway would (probably) say: “This is what it amounted to.”
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” - E.H.
What Hemingway said about Stefan Pinto:
“He makes art that looks like a scar.”
