RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup

[Carl Pultz <cpultz@earthlink.net>]

Did I hear my name?

BD:

<Hi, Phong...As I see it the problem is that in order to appreciate this
particular photo of Tom's, you probably have to equate shopping with death.
If you don't, it misses.
Carl's photo comes allot closer to making effective use of a sign or
message. As you note, the city is devoid of people. I see it more in terms
of the obviously dying city - looking at the sign missing letters,
etc....But to each his own....I think Carl's shot might have worked better
had it been directly across the street from the sign, so that we could see
more of the rundown store fronts. But, again, that's a matter of
taste....which is, of course what all of this is about.:-)
B. D.
- - -----Original Message-----

If Tom's message is "shopping = dead", (whatever dead and alive
mean to Tom), there is enough of elements in the photo to conjure the
message.
In the same way, I cannot help but make the connection between
the billboard message "The Future is Now in Session" in Carl Pultz's
http://home.earthlink.net/~cpultz/PAW/PAW12.htm and the emptiness
of the cityscape devoid of people depicted in the photo.
Not that I think Tom's photo "works" for me.
- - - Phong
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Guys,

Maybe I shouldn't say anything to disturb the idea of me having an idea as 
nice as that. But the truth is, I liked the light, those huge faces on the 
wall were a bit spooky, and I've been trying to do things which aren't so 
static, so when the light changed, I crouched down a bit and waited for the 
bus to come. That there aren't any pedestrians in view is lucky.

But, yea, what brought me there in the first place was the decay. That 
intersection was the major retail hub of the city. I used to work in a 
building off to the right, the former Sibleys department store 
headquarters. Worked on their newspaper add photos. Our city is trying, 
like so many others, to survive.

There's talk of removing the buildings in the picture to make room for a 
bus station. Destroying in order to save. That's America.

CP

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