[Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Now is it complete without a theme?

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

Just the same, I think you're doing a great job.
It's not easy when its personal and emotionally close.
On a bridge project, it took me almost 8 months to 'get it'.
Then, The majority of the keepers came from a batch of about 12 rolls  
of film.
A small sampling was laid out on a table at the last LHSA meeting.

Slobodan Dimitrov
Studio G-8,
Angels Gate Cultural Center
http://sdimitrovphoto.com





On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

>> But maybe let's hear what Jeffrey has to say about this?
>
> I agree with both of you. At this point, I have not tried to even  
> arrange
> the images in some sort of coherent fashion. I'm just posting them  
> as I have
> scanned them (choosing among those shot at 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm).  
> To this
> end, the "gallery" is really just random, as Slobodan says, just a
> walk-through of what I have seen down there. So it is prose without  
> the
> poetry, and not even good prose as I haven't tried to make it  
> logical yet.
> Sort of like a cook who just cooks 6 different things and puts them  
> all on a
> tray. Not a good "presentation". Mike Stoesz suggest that I bring  
> someone
> with me, someone who can write some narrative to accompany the  
> pictures, and
> I think his and Slobodan's suggestions are valid. I am trying to  
> record what
> is happening, a la "War Photographer", but some narrative would  
> make it
> complete. If you have seen the award-winning film "Night and  
> Fog" (1955), it
> has some compelling photography, but the poetic narration (and  
> subtitles)
> are what makes it complete film of Nazi atrocities. I have only  
> scraped the
> surface of that by adding captions.
>
> Ultimately, it would be more effective by perhaps grouping similar  
> images
> adjacent to one another. There are certainly several themes here  
> (the most
> obvious of which is "Houses Sitting On Cars". I hope to do some  
> slow walking
> through there this weekend to find some smaller, less spectacular  
> shots.
> Looking at the trees instead of the forest. Some sort of  
> organization of it
> all may come to mind for me.
>
> Thanks to Phillipe and Slobodan for making me give this some  
> thought. :-)
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
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