Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm far more impressed by photos posted by LUG members than I am by any of the diptychs being discussed. They struck me as clich?. But grouping people in threes is solid composition. That's about the only thing that I took from them. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Barbour [mailto:kididdoc@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:44 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Diptychs On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2006, at 12:37 PM, George wrote: > >> I'm with you Ric. This is one of the strongest bodies of work I've >> seen in a long time. Each portrait would stand on its own as a >> powerful representation of sub culture. The juxtapositions simply >> strengthen the contrast and similarities between sub cultures. And as >> body of work they speak powerfully of our human condition. I'm not so sure about that...we have plenty of photos that tell us about the human condition, do we really need nice posed studio advertising type images to tell us of the human condition...they look more like models dressed to the part... IMHO I think they tell us more about what is in the photographers mind and the fact that he wants to make money out of this project.... Steve > > I disagree. While the portraits are strong, except for subject > matter relationships and contrasts, most did not work as diptychs. > Diptychs should have some form of connecting artistic unity and > should enhance each other, mirroring shape and composition. > Meaningful content contrasts are not enough. The diptych should > stand as a coherent work of art independent of meaning. In this > case art is sacrificed for social comment. The photos would be > better presented as individual portraits and let the viewer assign > whatever social meaning he will in his own mind. > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information