This is a statue of Joan of Arc outside the Église St. Augustin, a church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It looks like this picture has a forced perspective from being taken up close with a wide angle lens, but no. This is what the statue actually looks like. If you take a look at the lettering on the pedestal you can see that it looks perfectly normal.
Statues of Joan all look like this. For some reason she's usually portrayed as tall and thin, even though in real life she was 5' 2" and "thickly made."
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"Tall and thin" v "5-2 and thickly made"
Heros must look heroic.
5"2' in 1429 was probably close to average height. "Thickly made" was real wife material for any farm girl. She could probably pick up a real sword and hold it that high, which is more than any of the actresses who play her can do.
BUT the point of interest is when were those statues constructed?
Claims of how "heroic appearance" and similar are societal delusions foisted upon us by capitalism blah blah blah fall apart if we see similar patterns going ever further and further back in history.
cf the statues of Ramesses II, or Cholla bronzes, or statues of apsaras on Angor Wat.
She's no Gal Gadot.
True. But, then, nobody is Gal Gadot!
She is rendered as a quintessential idealized French women who happens to be riding a Shetland pony. It's all art!
Btw, 10 robot cars caused a massive traffic jam. Tell me again how they are Ready?
What's the traffic jam rate for robot cars vs human cars?
Nice try.
I know it's easy to fool everyone else, but you know, your camera's metadata says your focal length was 9mm, which on your Sony it would read as 24mm.
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You beat me to it. The entire photo looks like it was shot with a wide angle lens, not just the statue, and the metadata confirm it.
The lettering on the pedestal looks fairly normal because cropping the image to include only the text gives the same perspective as photographing the text with a 130mm equivalent lens.
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So somebody trying to figure out how to represent 2 dimensions in 3 dimensions.