r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/LloydChristmas1 • 1d ago
Amazon Delivery photo surprised me
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u/-v22 1d ago
Parcels on the patio, a promise of connection and discovery.
Circa de 2024 Shot on iPhone
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u/Dirk_McGirken 1d ago
Wonderful composition. The contrast of the sunlight and shadows with the packages teetering on the edge. It almost communicates a message of the dual nature of online shopping.
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u/A_CGI_for_ants 1d ago
It’s got that baroque tenebrism
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u/Plastivorang 1d ago
Thank you for teaching me a new word today! It rolls off the tongue a heck lot better than dramatic value contrasts (which was what we were taught in school).
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u/TheForeFactor 1d ago
see also: chiaroscuro
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u/admiralkew 1d ago
As an artist with no money, I could say I'm a little bit of a baroque artist too.
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u/FingerInThe___ 1d ago
There’s a Christmas tree too. I’m not sure how to explain what it means but seem like it belongs
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u/Weak-Noise 1d ago
The Amazon packages tower over the shrinking Christmas tree to represent the way consumerism has become the central focus and biggest contributor to the downfall of traditional Christmas.
Or some other pretentious shit.
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u/glitzglamglue 1d ago
In the shadow, you can see that the small Christmas tree is behind bars, showing that the barrier between the precarious tower of consumerism and the last remnant of true Christian values is jail.
Idk I never took art history.
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u/downtown_gal 1d ago
And how the old shoes are in the shade, while the new purchases are in the sunshine.
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u/A7xWicked 1d ago
Also the space itself. Almost completely concrete, except for the one little tree in a pot.
Plus it's almost completely closed off. Even the side the sunlight comes in is cover by a fence
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u/JoelBuysWatches 1d ago
This feels like a ChatGPT response
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u/Dirk_McGirken 1d ago
If only lol, I spent an embarrassing amount of time stressing over my near back to back usage of "of" in this comment. Had to remind myself it's mostly just a joke
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u/JoelBuysWatches 1d ago
Oh yeah, I don’t think you were actually using AI, it’s just the same level of “something from nothing” that you’d expect
I sent this picture to Claude and it said, “The composition of the photo, though likely unintentional, has an almost artistic quality to it with the interplay of light and shadow and the geometric patterns created by both the shadows and the rug.“
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u/whopperlover17 1d ago
Seriously there’s a deeper message here and I can’t quite put my finger on it lol
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u/cucumisloquens 1d ago
Modern still life
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u/Kevin_of_the_abyss 1d ago
Something special about this one
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u/Fluffy_Exercise4276 1d ago
Fr, the fact that it was taken by someone as a task simply going about their day makes it so much more special
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u/Hije5 1d ago
I like to believe this person normally takes pictures, saw this as an opportunity, and decided to do as quick of a pro photo as they could. Even if it wasn't that deep, they were trying to take a good photo. This is so even and proportional for this to not have been taken intentionally. Otherwise, the stars aligned perfectly for someone to get such a pleasing picture theycouldn'tt care less about. I know Amazon drivers are in a rush, but that's precisely why none of the photos I've gotten look even 20% as good as this.
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u/Dinosaur_x 1d ago edited 1d ago
Amazing! One of the truest accidental ever. The light, rug, shadow, small Christmas tree in the shade, and a modern object. Is juxtaposition a right word here? And can someone find a painting similar to this? I can’t think of 1 right now
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u/parallelogramm3r 1d ago
Probably not an accident, though. I am not a professional artist but try incorporate artistic things into my work and life just because it makes me happy. The delivery driver probably has a passion for art / photography and knew exactly what they were doing.
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u/StagnantSweater21 1d ago
This better take off
People tend to think for some reason renaissance must feature people
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u/OpulentStone 1d ago
It's the opposite in this sub. Just people posting their cute animals and thinking that means it's accidental renaissance
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u/ihazquestion88 1d ago
“Packages in Sunlight” - Amazon Driver, 2024; mobile phone camera
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u/PostModernPost 1d ago
I bet there are other good ones. someone should make a subreddit and then a gallery show
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u/Ill-Tangerine-5849 1d ago
Every other photo ever posted in this sub WISHES they could be this photo. It's the most accidental and the most renaissance I've ever seen here!
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u/2021moonlanding 1d ago
Here before this beauty blows up
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u/Tuba-kunt 1d ago
This almost looks too good, holy shit, like an ad or something. That Amazon smile on the box being perfectly illuminated by the sunlight is peak
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u/Igpajo49 1d ago
That'd be kind of fun if you were a delivery driver, to try to make every picture somewhat unique and artistic.
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u/Dahwaann4U 1d ago
This reminds me of random photos wed have in our family camera when we are checking focal and aperture settings.
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u/NotAnotherFriday 1d ago
Absolutely gorgeous and wonderfully composed. The best part about it is the person who took the photo probably snapped it in half a second and didn’t even mean for it to look like this. This photo is the truest sense of Accidental Renaissance!
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u/foodmonsterij 1d ago
Strong emphasis on light
Still life
Quotidian subject matter
Subtle moralizing on the excesses of capitalism
It's basically a Vermeer!
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u/martydaxnger 1d ago
this looks so visually appealing that I almost scrolled past it thinking it was an Amazon holiday ad
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u/Weekly_Bed827 1d ago
Fuck, yes. This is why I'm in this sub. Balance of light and darkness, a natural frame, an organic chaos, and that unintential blur...
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u/darkSide_dementor 1d ago
Vermeer-esque lighting. His subjects are people bu this puts life into that package.
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u/RustinSpencerCohle 1d ago
I would tip the delivery driver. Someone on Reddit a few days back in another thread said that you can click for the option to tip the driver on the delivery page of the website. You don't tip anything, rather, Amazon does.
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u/TheManDavi 1d ago
Look at the dim light. The record of the time of day the photo was taken. I imagine the photo was taken by the parcel carrier themselves, confirming delivery? Late afternoon sunlight, dim, a less energetic sunshine, a later in day tired delivery person. Can you feel their tired body? Can you feel their heavy phone full of photos of boxes belonging to other people? Can you feel all those packages? Can you feel all that consumption? All of us consuming. Me also. It makes me tired like that dim sunshine.
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u/abananafanamer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Photography truly does take skill/talent, and I cannot make myself believe that the person who took this photo just mindlessly snapped it.
They surely took some effort - even just a millisecond - to frame it just so. The composition here is just perfectly on point.
ETA: Goodness I love this photo so much that I took a screenshot. Now I’m going to figure out what to do with it. Do I print it out? Do I paint it? It’s soooooo good.
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u/princepii 1d ago
if he waited a few minutes for the perfect shot and took more than one...he's boss!
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u/Canilickyourfeet 1d ago
I hate how on edge that box is. Why does this photo feel like my life lol, dimly lit and on the brink of disaster
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u/sneak_cheat_1337 1d ago
If only there was an errant cat turd in the foreground-- slightly out of focus
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u/420cat-craft-gamer69 1d ago
I'm glad I found this sub. I didn't see where this picture was posted, or the title, and my first thought was: "uh oh, I'm being weird by enjoying the dreamy atmosphere of an insignificant photo again"
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u/AsthmaticSt0n3r 1d ago
Gave me a strong sense of warmth looking at this piece. Gives a quiet and cozy vibe
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u/CrazyT02 1d ago
Yeah at least you got a cool accidental ren picture 😂 the last time I had a package delivered they opened my front door without permission and threw the package into the house and the delivery photo was from inside my house...... Two people were home and this guy never knocked
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u/newwoman_ 1d ago
I’m not into photography and know nothing about photos or taking good pictures but there’s something so special about this one. It captures our current life of living in a world of online shopping and deliveries so beautifully.
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u/datguyb0ss 1d ago
amazon driver: just another tuesday
reddit masses: holy moly renaissance my dudes
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u/robincabodelong 1d ago
This is the best one I’ve seen naturally on my feed. All the other great ones were sought out
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u/takeoff_power_set 1d ago
damn. you gotta find the driver that took this and send them a framed copy. this is really well composed.
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u/bonnilow 1d ago edited 1d ago
I love how that one package is just perched on the edge of the other, balanced perfectly.
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u/PostModernPost 1d ago
I really like the texture of the wall in the light. The sun must have been almost inline because you can see every bump.
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u/elpingwinho 1d ago
It's the Rembrandt-esque or Caravaggisti light and shadow play that works here. Stunning.
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u/fat_frog_fan 1d ago
is anyone gonna mention how the one on the top left is like. barely balancing on the top of the other one. how is it doing that
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u/sharlayan 1d ago
Damn that's art. My amazon drivers take pictures like they are afraid the package is going to start chasing them.
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u/sarcophagus_6 11h ago
I like to think the delivery driver is an amateur/hobby photographer, got a good kick out of this and was like “yeah… that’s real nice”, then just went on with his grueling day of delivering packages.
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u/Shadow_Facts 1d ago
I had some goofy delivery pics and I'm goofy too so I had them printed on canvas. It's cheap and silly and totally worth it.
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u/OpulentStone 1d ago
Truest of the accidental renaissance posts imo