Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

I think it's time to put this puzzle to bed.

The modified equation parses to:
who(Pic-1) - who(Pic-2) + who(Pic-3) ~= who(Pic-4)

Pic-1: This is obviously a painting. So, 'who' can mean one of two things: who is in it, or who painted it. The painting is not realist, so it's logical to go with the second option. It's a famous naive realist painting "The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau, now at the MoMA in New York. Lion, moon, sleeping figure etc. easily brings it up on google.

Pic-2: 'Who' here is a no brainer, since we have a figure with the title page of a book. We are asking who wrote it. It's "The Social Contract", right out of middle-school civics. The author is Rousseau.

So, Pic-1 minus Pic-2 leaves us with Henri (with a little fudge! )

Pic-3 is a very famous 'Raj' picture. The 'who' here, could be 'who's the handsome fellow', or 'who made the jewelry'. Note that the necklace is emphasized. This is the Maharaja of Patiala, wearing the famous Patiala Necklace, commissioned from La Maison Cartier. The keywords maharaja, necklace etc. should bring it up.

So, now we have Henri Cartier.

The last one, the subject of our quiz, is of course a famous photograph. The 'who' here can mean one of two things - 'who's in it' or 'who took it'. We all know who's in it: Nehru, Mountbatten and Edwina. The guy whose face is hidden is a red-herring.:twisted: (Especially when you consider the additional clues that are both portraits). So, who took it?

This photograph was taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of photo-journalism and candid street photography - the answer to our quiz! Cartier-Bresson was sent to document the newly independent India. He took this picture and many other famous ones you might recognize, including that Gandhi at the spinning wheel image and of course, the cool hipster Albert Camus with upturned collar and dangling cigarette! Cartier-Bresson also documented Gandhi's funeral.

I had the pleasure of seeing the Cartier-Bresson in India photographs at the MoMA a few years ago. Check them out on Google Images - they are well worth seeing!

PS: For the Ferragamo fans here, check this out courtesy of the Maharani Indra Devi.

 

Hmm, bang and doom just when I thought the world was about to experience new beginning

Some random selections from last week that tickled my interest

Curated essays and articles : Electric Typewriter
Humour : McSweeneys
Reads: Thistlebottom's hobgoblins
Bonus: Bend it like Pinker
Long read: Did someone mention psilobycin
Tuned to: A cook abroad
On watchlist: Bitter Lake (fell asleep after 1.5h)
Fad: this & that (bordering on addiction)
Retro-walk to MS : Project Tuva ((works only on silverlight)
Rush-hour: Try this simple interface

I just download this morning

• If on a winter's night a traveler (Calvino)
• The Praise of Folly (Erasmus)
• Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
• The wind-up bird chronicle (Haruki Murakami)

Away from IL this month

(Asin's ambassador gaadi pledge- until I finish the above books, will not return)
(until I finish those books, will not thread my brows)
(futzing too much idle time, moping last night with mates no constructive undertaking, hiccups and sobs)

Ta ..

 

Yes, I like keeping people on their toes! Just consider it a mindfulness exercise.

Yes, I figured that someone would go chasing after the 4th guy. I was being evil there!:twisted:

'Henri' + 'photographer' or 'Cartier' + 'photographer' would have got you there!
'Maharaja' + 'necklace' would have led you to Cartier.

Indeed it is the photographer. Cartier-Bresson was a pioneer, considered one of the greatest photographers of all time.

Yes, he did take that picture of Gandhi, and that iconic image of Albert Camus.

 

By the way, maybe we should declare February 'Talk about Aria' month. She's not here, so this is our chance - before she gets back all improved 'n stuff!

 

I had no clue of the Patiala necklace, pic#1 and pic#2 and I take off from the campus, that is the reason I chided Soka as a terrestrial puzzle when I was ready on launchpad to Mars. When you arrive at Henri and type in Bio . Slap-bang opening caption: "Take a look at famous people named Henri, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Becquerel, and Henri Matisse."

"Maharaja" and "necklace" isn't yielding Cartier pics on google (atleast in my locale on front runner pages). Enamoured by the picture, I did a reverse lookup now, when I viewed on phone , that necklace looked like chandelier (mind the pic was tiny). Good videos on Cartier, really good animations, ah! Panther.

 

Damn! What improvement , blah..
Stacked up rest and started on "Days of Abandonment"

I wish I had some of the obsession, persistence, perseverance of Wikignome to nurture my whims.

 

Gauri ,

You sure are felicitating me with some award as a humbug here, the ones who exit, turn, turn-around, exit, enter, twist through that turnstile, get stuck, ouch!

 

<screwdriver-tinkering>

I-D-E-A! May be we should stop these puzzles, quiz, pics, photoshoots and just discuss trending news, articles, books, whats-new, when-stale. Oh! you have no clue, was wailing by the time I returned home yesterday, need to do something, kuch karna hai , eating strawberry (hate sb!) trifle, baah , waah, sobbing, I need to atleast read a page a day of something, even Argos catalogue. kuch to karna hai na , muttering on train...

Wake up and download 4 books faintingsmiley
(improved n stuff, I see no hope for me)

</screwdriver-tinkering>

Poster's note: Pics deleted, who knows may be few members from my other mutaween lurk here as "dimplechin", "threeeyedsnake", "pepperpotts"

 

One last attempt ...
Aria the mantra is walk back slowly slowly , don't turn, retrace the steps, slightly fade, muffle the voice and then duck and run..

Dude & duduttes, you catch me here, taze me, shock me, ban me do something yaar-r-r ..

And of all the pictures he had a post a cartier, eh ?

(remember - "Feb" the productive, creative, constructive month)
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(and now astern)