Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks very much, Gilbert. No, no captions.;-) (Although I am still struggling with what to do when I hang them.) What I really found both fascinating and instructive as I went from a total of probably about 1000 scanned images, to my "favorite 193," to 24, was that there were images I really wanted to include because I knew the "back story" that went with them. But when other people - including my daughter, who can be a tough, informed critic - looked at those same images she'd say they were good, but that I clearly had better, and needed to separate myself from what I knew about the images. The best example of that is that the photo of 'three men and a baby' comes from a series I shot on Cape Cod of family gathered for the first time with a new grandchild - grandmother and grandfather, his three kids, the newborn child of one, the father of the baby, and a few friends of the kids. The only family member missing? The one daughter the gm and gf had had together - who had been brutally murdered nine months earlier. So as I went through the images I was emotionally overloaded with the 'back story,' aware of the meaning of the gathering; the specialness, if you will, of the arrival of this first grandchild; the gaping hole in the family. But no one else viewing the photos of grandma holding the baby, as grandfather leans forward to touch the baby's cheek, etc. etc., is aware of that. So the one image from the group that made it is the 'three men and a baby,' and Alicia's (my daughter) argument for that one, aside from any compositional qualities the image may have, is that it is unusual to see a photo like that with a group of males, rather than females, where a baby is clearly the happy center of attention. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of J. Gilbert Plantinga Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:50 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Show images What, no captions!? :-) Two points: 1. Not one of these photos requires that we know anything beyond what is in the photo itself. 2. It's really good to see an undiluted portfolio. It's not a documentary (though I believe that I've seen some of these in the documentary series from which they came). But taken out of their textual context, the pictures work in and of themselves simply as pictures - see point one above. So B. D., it is very good to see you practicing what you preach. Very nice work. Gilbert On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 10:01 AM, bdcolen wrote: > I have posted the 24 images from my MIT, a good number of which many > of you have seen before over the past couple of years, some of which > you may not have seen yet, at > http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/folder-4390.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html