Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD, FWIW Phong's comments are exactly what mine would be; except that I don't know the two dudes! But great photography. Thanks for posting them, Peter Dzwig Phong wrote: > B. D. Colen wrote: > >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/album154 > > > Very nice even though I have seen most of these before. > You didn't ask, but I will give my comments anyway :-) > > For a 20 photo portfolio with such diversity, I find > the 6 baby-in-the-hospital photos too big a set on a > single subject. I would take out maybe 3 of them, > and replace them with others that reinforce some > other themes, or introduce new themes. > > The 20 photos together make a much bigger > impact than seeing them separately over the course > of several months, even though most of them clearly, > clearly stand very strongly by and on themselves. > Seeing them together gives me a stronger sense of > what makes you tick as a photographer; no rocks > and peeling paint for you, oh no. Definitely social > stuff: aging and sickness, youth, women, and jewishness, > and race, photographed photographers, etc. > Social stuff with a touch of the unexpected either in > the contrast or in the similarity. I could go on, but I > will refrain myself. :-) >