Photography Group
"Café Stories" Inspirations
Here are some of the images - with commentary - that inspired the Café Stories theme.
These are story-telling images. Most aren't photographs. None of them are set in a café. What makes them inspiring is how they trigger a story-telling impulse in the viewer.

Mistress and Maid, ca. 1664–67
Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
Oil on canvas
The Frick Collection, New York
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Untitled #90 (1981)
Cindy Sherman (1954–)
Chromogenic print
Art Institute of Chicago
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Nighthawks (1942)
Edward Hopper (1882–1967)
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
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Stamford after Brunch (2000)
John Currin (1962-)
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
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Dorothea and Francesca (1898)
Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942)
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
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