{"id":14335,"date":"2024-05-04T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/is-this-an-image-of-a-sculpture-or-an-invitation-to-a-sexual-encounter-esteban-kuriels-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T07:38:11","slug":"is-this-an-image-of-a-sculpture-or-an-invitation-to-a-sexual-encounter-esteban-kuriels-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/is-this-an-image-of-a-sculpture-or-an-invitation-to-a-sexual-encounter-esteban-kuriels-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?\u2019: Esteban Kuriel\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,\u201d Esteban Kuriel says.<\/p>\n<p>On this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin\u2019s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane\u2019s Museum, which houses a collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian figurative sculptures. \u201cThe fragmented, contorted bodies inspired me, and I returned to my room to make this image. Photographing daily trains my eye, just as one trains their body at the gym, so I must play with what is available. In this case, it was this space and its furniture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/may\/04\/esteban-kuriel-best-phone-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49bd29bdc40b47331bafd932d186adecc73ed383\/0_940_3024_1814\/master\/3024.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2ec46e579a738ab1ecd6ef15808dc0ae\" title=\"\u2018Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?\u2019: Esteban Kuriel\u2019s best phone picture\" \/>The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art<br \/>\n\u201cA former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,\u201d Esteban Kuriel says.<br \/>\nOn this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin\u2019s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane\u2019s Museum, which houses a collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian figurative sculptures. \u201cThe fragmented, contorted bodies inspired me, and I returned to my room to make this image. Photographing daily trains my eye, just as one trains their body at the gym, so I must play with what is available. In this case, it was this space and its furniture.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art \u201cA former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,\u201d Esteban Kuriel says. On this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin\u2019s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane\u2019s Museum, which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/is-this-an-image-of-a-sculpture-or-an-invitation-to-a-sexual-encounter-esteban-kuriels-best-phone-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?\u2019: Esteban Kuriel\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}