Found this incredible image and wondering about its rarity
I discovered this picture through someone’s social media profile from their previous blog platform. The photo quality and style are really impressive. I’ve been searching everywhere but can’t seem to find any other photos of Miro anywhere online.
Has anyone else come across different pictures of him? I’m curious if this might be the only one that exists publicly. The aesthetic is really striking and I’d love to see more if they’re out there.
Any help tracking down other photos would be great. Thanks in advance!
I went through the same thing hunting for rare artist photos. These unique shots often come from private collections or estate archives that haven’t been digitized. Check museum databases and gallery websites - they sometimes have unpublished stuff in their research sections. Try reverse image searches with different crops too. Photographers and their estates often have material that never made it to mainstream publications. Since you found it on an old blog, there’s probably more buried in forgotten corners of the internet.
Check out academic dissertations and art history theses from universities. Students dig up rare photos during research that never see mainstream publications. I’ve found several unknown mid-century artist images this way for my own work. University libraries usually have digital thesis archives you can search. Also hit up art magazines from when this photo was likely shot. Their editorial archives sometimes hold outtakes and unpublished stuff from photo shoots. The photo looks professional, so it’s probably part of a commissioned series. There might be contact sheets or more shots sitting in some magazine’s storage.
Been doing photo hunting projects for years - manual searching sucks.
You need automated web scraping across multiple sources at once. Set up workflows to monitor auction houses, estate sales, museum collections, and social media for new Miro stuff.
I built something like this tracking rare tech docs. It searches hundreds of sites every few hours, runs reverse image matches, and flags potential hits automatically.
For Miro, automate searches across art databases, newspaper archives, photo collections, and monitor new blogs or social posts mentioning him. Way better than manual clicking.
Automation handles the boring stuff while you do actual detective work. Plus it keeps looking 24/7.
Latenode makes these monitoring workflows dead simple. Connect different search APIs and databases without coding.
That photo has amazing composition and lighting. I’ve collected rare artist documentation for years, and images like this usually come from unexpected places - family members or former studio assistants who kept personal archives. Since you found it on an old blog, the original source probably had deeper connections to Miro’s circle. I’d check newspaper archives from when this was likely taken. Journalists often shot extra photos that never got published. Also contact photography historians who specialize in artist portraits - they’ve got networks of collectors who trade rare images like this. The quality screams professional photographer, not casual snapshot, which should help narrow your search.
Hold up - which Miro? Joan Miro the surrealist or someone else? If it’s the painter, you’re right that rare photos are tough to find. Most of what’s online is just those same studio shots from the 60s and 70s.
totally get what you mean! this pic is 1 of a kind for sure. have u tried looking in art archives or even reaching out to art collectors? they might have more hidden gems or leads on more pics of miro.