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| 03/02/2015 07:13:00 AM | Under an Indifferent Sunby instepsComment: It's interesting that you should mention Trent Parke (who of course is a Magnum photographer; so curiouser and curiouser) because the first reaction I had to this essay was to be reminded of Trent Parke's early stuff in the streets of Sydney, where the light is, as he says, particularly dramatic at the right time of day (anything before the pubs open is about right, though when I lived there there were 'early openers' that welcomed the desperate drinker at 7:30am).
The Trent Parke early work I refer to is right here. Click on 'Dream/Life' after the link opens.
Your last essay was about the people of Taiwan; this one is about the light of Taiwan. It's a very nice change of POV for we who love your stuff.
As well as the light, I also enjoyed the forms, especially clear in the first half of the essay, but present in all of them. The light has a transformative effect on the forms, creating sculptures out of prosaic structures, and heavenly portals out of gaps or openings in the overhead awnings.
It's another loving essay by a photographer who's very far from indifferent, and I'm happy to 'be there' with you.
Interesting to see a swastika in the last image; in this context I suppose it would be a Buddhist mark?
A happy half hour I spent here. Thank you.
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| 03/01/2015 09:48:14 AM | 1by markwileyComment: Just as I had forecast in a recent forum comment to you, you have failed to disappoint. This is wonderful photography, technically and beyond, and I will be back to comment in more detail. For now, Mark, thank you for joining the DPC essayists, and I'm not one bit surprised that your first offering is so damned classy! | Photographer found comment helpful. |
| 03/01/2015 09:10:18 AM | 1by 2mccsComment: You're a timid street photographer, or perhaps you just respect people's personal space and identity. I'm known for sticking people up with a camera in the street, but I think your lighter touch is better and more resonant than my primitive muggings. You say these are your first real attempts at street, and that means you've stepped straight past a lot of the traditional street motifs (cliches, really) and gone right to street photography of more depth and texture than most of us street hacks can manage.
I've commented separately on No 2, which I think is uncommonly beautiful and sophisticated. The others are delights as well, especially 4, 7 & 8.
But this is about the whole, the essay. It's sparing, but clear and confident. The language is simple, the story is enchanting. Thank you.
P.S. Regarding the filter, it's just a tool like any other. Some people (me among them sometimes) use filters as a drunk uses a lamp post; for support rather than illumination. That's not the case here, because the real filter in this collection of photographs is actually you, and that appears to be one-of-a-kind. | Photographer found comment helpful. |
| 03/01/2015 08:44:26 AM | 2by 2mccsComment: Before I assemble some comments on the essay as a whole, I must react to this picture.
It's really very beautiful. It's one of those sneaky abstracts that are not abstract at all. The purely graphic character of it, like Rothko feeling blue, is a first impression level of delight in addition to the subsequent realisation that it's actually a representational, literal work.
It's a visual fuge, by which I mean the image easily becomes convincingly audible as a musical piece like this.
The musical theme is also graphically echoed in the fact that it actually looks like a musical stave, with a lonely, melancholy high note at upper left. It's obviously in a minor key.
It's a lovely, witty, satisfying photograph. I very, very rarely see a photo and think, "I'd like looking at that every day on my wall, and in extravagant size too", but this photograph is an exception to that rule. Thank you. | Photographer found comment helpful. |
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| 02/23/2015 04:41:46 PM | Chasing Pavementsby MelethiaComment: Originally posted by mariuca: ... in spite of its quite pedestrian title ... |
I so hope that that was an intentional pun. It would be a wickedness worthy of Wilde if it were. | Photographer found comment helpful. |
| 02/23/2015 03:29:23 AM | all about meby jmritzComment: Just look at those two sparkling comments below, and then contrast & reflect on the fact that more people voted this 4 than any other number. Imagine the lumpen intelligence that it takes to see this as a 4. I can forgive the 1, the 2s and even the 3s. At least they are taking a stand. There's some passion in 3-and-under. But 4? 4 is just an abrogation of imagination. Voting 4 on this picture says, "I'm as dull as a plank and I don't care: that's the way I like it."
Gun control may be out of the question, but if they ever introduce camera control I'll happily disarm the people who gave this a 4. | Photographer found comment helpful. |
| 02/23/2015 03:20:45 AM | Them and usby PaulComment: Funny to find you way down here in this unaccustomed place. Your new lights are shining into the nasty corners already. It's dusty and smelly, but there's not so many footprints, fag ends and discarded chip packets. So it all balances out in the end. Cheers. | Photographer found comment helpful. |
| 02/19/2015 09:00:33 AM | Chasing Pavementsby MelethiaComment:
three thumbs = my top pick & hang it on my wall anytime.
OK, so after half a dozen short-then-shorter lists this is my top pick. Last man standing. Why?
First thing is, it's beautiful. Really very beautiful; shapes, tones, light and all the aesthetics are visually pleasing. The muted colours are lovely. And the composition is inspired. This is a view that most of us have seen many times, and yet I've never seen it captured as beautifully as this. Those were my first thoughts.
My second thoughts were that this is three frames from a film (I speak figuratively of course). A man stands watching, almost from the wings, as a strange cinema plays past him. He can enter the movie; he can stay where he is and watch the movie; or he can leave the theatre and the movie will still play to an empty house.
I didn't dare have any third thoughts.
Thank you. | Photographer found comment helpful. |
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