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| Bliss | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Charles O'Rear |
| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Landscape photography |
| Location | Sonoma County, California, United States |
| 38°15′00.5″N122°24′38.9″W / 38.250139°N 122.410806°WCoordinates: 38°15′00.5″N122°24′38.9″W / 38.250139°N 122.410806°W | |
| Owner | Microsoft |
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Bliss is the default computer wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XPoperating system. It is a virtually unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with clouds in the Los CarnerosAmerican Viticultural Area of California's Wine Country. Charles O'Rear took the photo in 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights in 2000. It is estimated that billions of people have seen the picture, possibly making it the most viewed photograph in history.[1]
Overview[edit]
Former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear, a resident of the nearby Napa Valley, took the photo on film with a medium-formatMamiya RZ67 camera while on his way to visit his girlfriend in 1996. While it was widely believed later that the image was digitally manipulated or even created with software such as Adobe Photoshop, O'Rear says it never was.[2][3] He sold it to Westlight for use as a stock photo titled Bucolic Green Hills.[4] Westlight would be bought by Corbis in 1998, who digitized its best selling images.[5] Two years following the acquisition, Microsoft's design team selected images to be used as wallpapers in Windows XP. The image would eventually be chosen as the default wallpaper, resulting in the company acquiring the image and renaming it to Bliss.
Due to the marketing success of Windows XP,[6][7][8] over the next decade it was claimed to be the most viewed photograph in the world during that time.[1]
History[edit]
In January 1996, former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear was on his way from his home in St. Helena, California, in the Napa Valley north of San Francisco, to visit his girlfriend, Daphne Irwin (whom he later married), in the city, as he did every Friday afternoon. He was working with Irwin on a book about the wine country. He was particularly alert for a photo opportunity that day, since a storm had just passed over and other recent winter rains had left the area especially green.[9] Driving along the Sonoma Highway (California State Route 12 and 121) he saw the hill, free of the vineyards that normally covered the area; they had been pulled out a few years earlier following a phylloxera infestation.[10] 'There it was! My God, the grass is perfect! It's green! The sun is out; there's some clouds,' he remembered thinking. He stopped somewhere near the Napa–Sonoma county line and pulled off the road to set his Mamiya RZ67medium-format camera on a tripod, choosing Fujifilm's Velvia, a film often used among nature photographers and known to saturate some colors.[2][11] O'Rear credits that combination of camera and film for the success of the image. 'It made the difference and, I think, helped the 'Bliss' photograph stand out even more,' he said. 'I think that if I had shot it with 35 mm, it would not have nearly the same effect.'[12] While he was setting up his camera, he said it was possible that the clouds in the picture came in. 'Everything was changing so quickly at that time.' He took four shots and got back into his truck.[9][13] According to O'Rear, the image was not digitally enhanced or manipulated in any way.[14]
Since it was not pertinent to the wine-country book, O'Rear made it available through Westlight (transferred to Corbis after its acquisition) as a stock photo, available for use by any interested party willing to pay an appropriate licensing fee.[2] He also submitted a vertical shot, which was available at the same time.[15] In 2000, Microsoft's Windows XP development team contacted O'Rear through Corbis, which he believes they used instead of larger competitor Getty Images, also based in Seattle, because the former company is owned by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.[16] 'I have no idea what [they] were looking for,' he recalls. 'Were they looking for an image that was peaceful? Were they looking for an image that had no tension?'[17] Another image of O'Rear's titled Full Moon over Red Dunes, known as Red moon desert in Windows XP, was also considered as the default wallpaper, but was changed due to testers comparing it to buttocks.[18]
Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as XP's default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it. They offered O'Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.[19] It has been reported to be 'in the low six figures.'[1] O'Rear needed to send Microsoft the original film and sign the paperwork; however, when couriers and delivery services became aware of the value of the shipment, they declined since it was higher than their insurance would cover. So the software company bought him a plane ticket to Seattle and he personally delivered it to their offices.'[1] 'I had no idea where it was going to go,' he said. 'I don't think the engineers or anybody at Microsoft had any idea it would have the success it's had.'[20]
Microsoft gave the photo its current name, and made it a key part of its marketing campaign for XP. Although it's often said that it was cropped slightly to the left and the greens were made slightly stronger, the version Microsoft bought from Corbis had been cropped like this to begin with,[15] while the saturation is a result of the Velvia film. The photographer estimates that the image has been seen on a billion computers worldwide, based on the number of copies of XP sold since then.[19]
Attempts to recreate[edit]
In November 2006, Goldin+Senneby visited the site in Sonoma Valley where the Bliss image was taken, re-photographing the same view now full of grapevines (pictured). Their work After Microsoft[10] was first shown in the exhibition 'Paris was Yesterday' at the gallery La Vitrine in April 2007.[21] It was later exhibited at 300m³ in Gothenburg.[22]
Reception[edit]
O'Rear concedes that despite all the other photographs he took for National Geographic, he will probably be remembered most for Bliss.[19] 'Anybody now from age 15 on for the rest of their life will remember this photograph,' he said in 2014.[23]
Since the origins of the image were not widely known for several years after XP's release, there had been considerable speculation about where the landscape was. Some guesses have included locations in France, England, Switzerland, the North Otago region of New Zealand, and southeastern Washington.[19] Dutch users believed the photograph was shot in Ireland's County Kerry since the image was named 'Ireland' in the Dutch release of the software; similarly, the image was named 'Alentejo' in the Portuguese version, leading users speaking that language to believe it had been taken in the eponymous region of Portugal.[14]
Other users have speculated that the image was not of a real location, that the sky came from a separate image and was spliced together with the hill. O'Rear is adamant that, other than Microsoft's minor alterations to the digitized version, he did nothing to it in a darkroom, contrasting it with Adams' Monolith:
I didn't 'create' this. I just happened to be there at the right moment and documented it. If you are Ansel Adams and you take a particular picture of Half Dome and want the light a certain way, you manipulate the light. He was famous for going into the darkroom and burning and dodging. Well, this is none of that.[19]
In December 2001, Microsoft released a screensaver under the name of Bliss, with the scenery similar to the image, but with animating effects.[24]
In 2012, David Clark of the British magazine Amateur Photographer commented on Bliss's aesthetic qualities. 'Critics might argue that the image is bland and lacks a point of interest, while supporters would say that its evocation of a bright, clear day in a beautiful landscape is itself the subject,' he wrote. He notes the 'dreamlike quality' created by the filtered sunlight on the hillside as distinguishing the image. 'What made Microsoft choose the image above all others?' he asked. Although the company had never told O'Rear or anyone else, Clark thought he could guess. 'It's attractive, easy on the eye and doesn't detract from other items that might be on the screen are all contributing factors. It may also have been chosen because it's an unusually inviting image of a verdant landscape and one that promotes a sense of wellbeing in desk-bound computer users.'[25]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdSweeney, Cynthia (March 26, 2014). 'Say goodbye to 'Bliss''. St. Helena Star. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ abcTaylor, Victoria (April 12, 2014). 'The story behind the famous Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper'. New York Daily News. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^Heisler, Yoni (July 23, 2015). 'The most viewed photo in the history of the world'. BGR. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
- ^Metadata of Bliss, Windows XP Beta 2
- ^Pickerell, Jim (May 20, 1998). 'Corbis Acquires Westlight'. Selling Stock. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- ^Clark, David. 'Bliss by Charles O'Rear: Iconic Photograph'. Amateur Photographer. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ^'Charles O'Rear's 'Bliss' one of the most viewed photo of all time'. Yahoo! News. July 18, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ^Messieh, Nancy (August 28, 2011). 'Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?'. The Next Web. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ^ abThe story behind the wallpaper we'll never forget (Internet video). Microsoft NL. 2014. Event occurs at 1:10. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^ ab'After Microsoft'. Goldin+Senneby. April 5, 2007. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
- ^Story, at 2:30.
- ^Story, at 2:50.
- ^Freedman, Wayne (April 7, 2014). 'Windows XP background is photo of Sonoma hillside'. ABC7. Archived from the original on April 12, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ abMessieh, Nancy (August 28, 2011). 'Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?'. thenextweb.com. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
- ^ abCorbis Westlight Creative Freedom (CD-ROM). Corbis. 1998.
- ^Popa, Bogdan (April 11, 2014). 'Microsoft Creates Short Documentary About Windows XP 'Bliss' Wallpaper'. Softpedia. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^Story, at 3:20.
- ^Chen, Raymond (August 25, 2003). 'Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone'. Microsoft - The Old New Thing. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
- ^ abcdeYounger, Carolyn (January 18, 2010). 'Windows XP desktop screen is a Napa image'. Napa Valley Register. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
- ^Story, at 4:45.
- ^'Paris was Yesterday'. Hanne's Art and Culture Blog. Hanne Mugaas. April 2, 2007. Archived from the original on December 1, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
- ^'300m3 Art Space – History'. 300m3.com. 2010. Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
- ^Story, 5:30.
- ^'Windows XP Bliss Screen Saver'. Microsoft. December 12, 2001. Archived from the original on December 27, 2001. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
- ^Clark, David (May 28, 2012). 'Bliss by Charles O'Rear-Iconic Photograph'. Amateur Photographer. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
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