Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feli, Thank you for the explanation. As well, the two images linked with your explanation do a very good job of illustrating your points. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 8/14/05, feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Feli, > > You have posted a number of mannequin images over time, obviously you > > are seeing something that I am not. Could you explain what in these > > images attracts your eye? This is not a negative request, rather, I > > want to see if I can expand on my vision with your sharing. > > > > Don > > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > Well, there are several reasons. I suppose the place to start is > probably with my youth and > background as a painter. Both of my parents are artist, opera > singers; but my father is also > a painter/sculptor. His style is a cross between impressionism and > expressionism. > > When I was growing up in Germany I was exposed to a lot of surrealist > and expressionist art. > Later when I started to paint, that is the direction I struck out in, > mostly cubist / expressionist. > > One line of thought in the surrealist movement is that inanimate > objects can have a life of their own. > An American manifestation of this can be seen in many early animated > cartoon of the early > 1930's like Out of the Inkwell, Felix the Cat etc. In these shorts > everything is alive; cars, phones, > furniture, everything. > > Now mannequins are inanimate objects, which of course have a humanoid > form. They also hold a > unique position, in that they are usually located in areas with high > levels of pedestrian traffic. > > I keep looking for a shot where a mannequin looks 'alive'; as if they > were interacting with a human, > or a situation where at first glance the viewer mistakes it for a > real person. Or a shot where > the mannequin appears to have taken on a life of their own. Sometimes > it's just for reasons of composition. > > I haven't really found the right shot, yet. I think the closest I've > come are perhaps these two.. > > http://tinyurl.com/c6r9s > http://tinyurl.com/a3hf5 > > > Cheers, > > Feli > > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > NO ARCHIVE > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >