Man n Meterby
Bernard_MarxComment by zeuszen: Does this photograph hold any interest? The subject(s) are unspectacular, if not trite. The motion blur appears to effect stationary objects. A cyan cast muddies the entire image, bleeding from a crack in the concrete.
The image appears as if divided into three panes, suggested by the cracks outlining the poured concrete of a contemporary sidewalk. The vertical nearly halves the landscape orientation -not quite but just enough to offset any sense of symmetry. The horizontal runs so close to the upper margin it could be mistaken for it, if it were not for the offset vertical which is equally out, by the same margin.
Comparing the distance between the top of subject on the left (the hat) and the top horizontal with the distance between its counterpart on the right (meter foot to bottom margin), we have (suprise!) symmetry. When we accept the presence of the three panes (via perspective as outlined by margin and cracks), it is easy to find the subjects in their traditional third.
This (the tension between the respective orders as much as that between the two unlike subjects) is both subtle and playful enough an order to be enjoyable. The meter, now, appears to have been placed deliberately in this photograph, which might as well be a painting. Its foot, after all, could be made of blown glass, while its eye is as yellow as it is watchful and unblinking.
As it is, the man with the baseball cap must be captured in flight, waving evidence.
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