Re: [Leica] WOW!

[Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com>]

Regarding:
http://www.leica-camera.com/kultur/events/wettbewerbe/obp/winner1/index_e.html

I think they're great... some are mysterious and foreboding.  The
old-fashioned person in me doesn't like the tilt in #3 or the headless
dog in #4 but I like her use of color.   Especially like #s 5 - 8.

I don't think that I'd be out in the open under those storm clouds in #s
1 and 3 though.

I find most of those on her website to be too dark.  Perhaps she created
the site and pics on a Mac and didn't adjust for the darker PC video.

BUT, it doesn't matter what any of us like, it's whether or not her
pictures are valid... and they are.

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com

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In a message dated 8/2/02 8:54:08 AM, images@InfoAve.Net writes:

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She also won "Picture of the Year" from the Missouri School of
Journalism 
for the photo of the dog walking out of the photo with the rainbow over
the 
beach.

I don't get it.  The underwater ones are nice but most of the others
look 
like snapshots.  The ones on her website 
http://www.in-public.com/autiofolio.html  all look underexposed and too 
contrasty.  Can somebody explain why these photos are exceptional?

Tina >>

Kim-Teresa wrote:

I liked the work on her website.

They are dark and rather mysterious.  Since there are many this way, I 
suspect it's intentional rather than a faulty meter.

I'm not sure about how exceptional they are as a body of work unless I
got to 
compare with others in the competition.....

This award was intended to aid modern photojournalism and I readily
admit I 
know little about the trends of modern photojournlism.  But this work
seems 
to fly in the face of traditional, straight, WYSIWYG, type stuff.  Quite 
frankly I like some of the stuff she's doing in her photos to ..."tell a 
story."  But I wonder how traditional PJs would view this or pj work
that is 
in this ilk.


- -kim
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