Just Another Day At The Beachby
muur88Comment by posthumous: A photograph is limited. In most cases, it's just a little flat square trying to convey a world. One of the few tools a photographer has is the illusion of a third dimension, depth. This creates more "room."
muur88 makes full use of this room, with his 4 characters each at very different depths, and moving in different directions. Notice they create a triangle in this illusory dimension. The boy runs along the hypotenuse. The joy of the photo comes from the energy of 4 completely disconnected characters being arbitrarily tied together. Most memorable photographs remind us in some shocking or subtle way that they are capturing the briefest moment... or perhaps more aptly, a space
between moments, when something is about to end and begin, to dissolve and change. Not only do these character not belong with each other, they do not belong in the setting, which seems like it would be more comfortable in emptiness. But don't get me wrong: chaos does not equal art. The trick here is to balance on the edge of chaos, show these elements not belonging but present them in a precarious momentary balance. For example, the triangle I mentioned, and how it's echoed by a triangle of birds which seem to be pouring out like smoke from the chimney.
The point here is to be right and wrong at the same time, a classic Surrealist strategy. If you do not like Surrealism, if you do not want to be disoriented or a little frightened, you will not like this photo.
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