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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Twenty One: The Marketplace -- crossroads of a community. > Clothing stall, Waterlooplein Flea Market, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
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19-JUN-2005

Clothing stall, Waterlooplein Flea Market, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005

I don’t know who this fellow is or what he represents, but discovering his glowing face slowly emerge from the stacks of clothes hanging around him was startling. He is in deep shade, but the sun grazes his head and softly illuminates the cloth around it. The eyes are soulful and the expression serious. His fabric likeness seems to be placed here to draw attention to the clothing, and it made a worthwhile image of a marketplace as well.

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Phil Douglis17-Apr-2006 05:56
I am no authorities on entertainers, Lucas. If you say it is, it must be.
Lucas 13-Mar-2006 16:38
Isn't this a somewhat distorted picture of Tupac Shakur?
Phil Douglis01-Mar-2006 06:57
I felt a sense of imprisonment here too, Xin. It is the juxtaposition of those pleading eyes and all of that fabric. He is a part of it, and can never escape.
Sheena Xin Liu01-Mar-2006 05:38
His face looks semi-translucent, and his mournful eyes look directly at me. This picture arises my sympathy because he seems to tell me that he has been imprisoned to a place where and he never belong to .
Phil Douglis09-Aug-2005 16:16
Thanks, Amal, for adding this context to this image. It is not only the face that is soulful -- it is how the light and shadow and surrounding colors bring it out.
Amal 09-Aug-2005 08:32
Interesting that you describe his face as soulful, because thats exactly what this man was, soulful, and he was VERY serious about his music and his philosophy. Amazing how you could not know anything about someone but from a single picture you can understand a man so well. He is IMO one of the greatest artist to ever live. He is the legend,Tupac Shakur aka 2pac.
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