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#photoOfTheDay is a bad photo (with many reflections I couldn't control) of the original artwork for "Sin Preferred" by legendary pulp artist Rudy Nappi. It's a lovely painting and I'd love to have (fedia.io)
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#photoOfTheDay is a bad photo (with many reflections I couldn't control) of the original artwork for "Sin Preferred" by legendary pulp artist Rudy Nappi. It's a lovely painting and I'd love to have it, but the asking price is $4500 because highly collectible. 😬

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Nappi

Seen at Robert's Bookshop in Lincoln City, Oregon, which is probably my favorite used bookstore.

#photo #photography #oregon #RoadTrip

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[–] Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@croyle@wandering.shop

Coincidentally I took these photos earlier this week at a friend's bookshop (that has a lot of pulp scifi):

Photo of the cover of a pulp fantasy scifi book called "Captives of the Savage Empire" by Jean Lorrah. It is a painting of a white woman (they're always white) in flowy white dress and black leather chaps (?) riding a white horse, casting some sort of lightning spell that manifests a dildo made out of light from her hands. A man, wearing a black velvet cape, seems stuck in a bog and is grasping onto the dildo of light for dear life. He doesn't look happy about the situation.
Photo of the cover of a pulp science fiction book titled "Flesh and Silver" by Stephen L. Burns, with the byline "The touch of a healer— with the hands of a machine..." The cover art is of silver hands and forearms crossed in front of a metal disk, fingers splayed. With weird abstarct shapes and a spiral galaxy that is about to experience the touch of a healer with the hands of a machine.

Photo of the cover of a pulp science fiction book titled "Flesh and Silver" by Stephen L. Burns, with the byline "The touch of a healer— with the hands of a machine..." The cover art is of silver hands and forearms crossed in front of a metal disk, fingers splayed. With weird abstarct shapes and a spiral galaxy that is about to experience the touch of a healer with the hands of a machine.

[–] croyle@wandering.shop 1 points 2 weeks ago

@Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social Love those, and any book store that has a lot of old pulp sci-fi!

[–] Bubs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Assuming this is a place you can easily visit again, if you want a clean picture of the painting, I could try using some Photoshop magic to combine multiple shots to remove all the reflections.

Since the reflections move depending on your angle, If you snap pictures from every angle, I could combine them in a way that gives you a clear picture.

I can't provide you with four grand, but I could potentially give a good digital version of it at the very least.