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03/14/2012 10:50:24 AM · #1 |
Advanced or Expert editing please
Thread talking about her work. |
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03/14/2012 11:10:02 AM · #2 |
| Strikes me as an idea too tacky even for DPC. Tragic, tortured girl left something singular to the world: a terrible beauty. I'd prefer to leave it that way. Please. |
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03/14/2012 11:29:48 AM · #3 |
| I'm not sure I see how this would be a tacky or distasteful challenge? She was obviously a tormented artist but her work was very deep and likely due to her torment. I don't think a challenge would be a slap in the face to her torment or disrespectful with her death but would celebrate art and her short life. Perhaps I am naive in this thinking. |
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03/14/2012 11:45:43 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Strikes me as an idea too tacky even for DPC. Tragic, tortured girl left something singular to the world: a terrible beauty. I'd prefer to leave it that way. Please. |
Tacky? How? Because she committed suicide? because she lost the conflict with her inner demons? Does that make VanGogh "tacky" as well? WTF? |
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03/14/2012 01:23:51 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
Originally posted by ubique:
Strikes me as an idea too tacky even for DPC. Tragic, tortured girl left something singular to the world: a terrible beauty. I'd prefer to leave it that way. Please. |
Tacky? How? Because she committed suicide? because she lost the conflict with her inner demons? Does that make VanGogh "tacky" as well? WTF? |
Dan, I can't really speak for Paul, but I am pretty sure you misunderstood his comment. He did not mean that either Francesca Woodman or her photography was tacky (I myself saw her book not long ago and was very moved by it), but mass fakery of her real torment would be tacky indeed.
I must say that I am generally not a big fan of these "In the style of" challenges, for that very reason. If one person, for a certain specific reason, creates something reminiscent of somebody else's style, it can be a tribute. When it is done en masse, in response to a challenge, it rings hollow and phoney. |
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03/14/2012 01:27:04 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by LevT:
Originally posted by Spork99:
Originally posted by ubique:
Strikes me as an idea too tacky even for DPC. Tragic, tortured girl left something singular to the world: a terrible beauty. I'd prefer to leave it that way. Please. |
Tacky? How? Because she committed suicide? because she lost the conflict with her inner demons? Does that make VanGogh "tacky" as well? WTF? |
Dan, I can't really speak for Paul, but I am pretty sure you misunderstood his comment. He did not mean that either Francesca Woodman or her photography was tacky (I myself saw her book not long ago and was very moved by it), but mass fakery of her real torment would be tacky indeed.
I must say that I am generally not a big fan of these "In the style of" challenges, for that very reason. If one person, for a certain specific reason, creates something reminiscent of somebody else's style, it can be a tribute. When it is done en masse, in response to a challenge, it rings hollow and phoney. |
Fair enough. |
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03/14/2012 01:34:25 PM · #7 |
Sometimes thinking inside of someone else's box can help a person to think outside of his or her own.
I think this is an interesting challenge idea, however, it's likely not something entirely fitting to the DPC crowd. |
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03/14/2012 02:43:23 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by LevT:
... mass fakery of her real torment would be tacky indeed.
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Well you did speak for me Lev, and rather better than I did for myself. The poor girl took her own life in her dreadfully beautiful photographs. That's what they were: serial public crucifixions of herself. Not the stuff for our amusement.
I do appreciate the sincerity of the OP, someone I've little doubt would make an interesting and thoughtful Woodman tribute photograph himself. I just meant it's best not made the subject of a contest. |
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03/14/2012 02:49:18 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Originally posted by LevT:
... mass fakery of her real torment would be tacky indeed.
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Well you did speak for me Lev, and rather better than I did for myself. The poor girl took her own life in her dreadfully beautiful photographs. That's what they were: serial public crucifixions of herself. Not the stuff for our amusement.
I do appreciate the sincerity of the OP, someone I've little doubt would make an interesting and thoughtful Woodman tribute photograph himself. I just meant it's best not made the subject of a contest. |
Being stated as such I see your point and do agree with it. |
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