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11/22/2014 08:10:11 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
You might want to look also at other "digital experiences" as the French call it, at "hyperphotos" such as Jean Francois Rauzier's concoctions. Just google his name for a "feast of imagination". Surely, it's not Gursky. Gursky is as Jery Salz said in his article::
Unfortunately, as smart and deft as this artist (Gursky) still is, that fizz has gone flat, the power has run low, the former buzz has become a drone.
Why would we like to experience with our little 1200 pixels what Gursky shows in his mega prints is lost on me and I'm afraid that the love for a certain type of crispiness will again be detrimental to the exercise of photography here.
Some of you discussed in a recent forum the value of looking at photography in an album, a book versus printed large in an exhibition
flat and soulless etc
Gursky is best seen when printed, that's how he intended it I think. Overpowering. |
Thank you for this. You'd think we'd be more sensitive to the paradoxically absolute effect of scale, after working so hard to up from 600 to 800 to 1200. |
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11/22/2014 10:49:17 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
You might want to look also at other "digital experiences" as the French call it, at "hyperphotos" such as Jean Francois Rauzier's concoctions. Just google his name for a "feast of imagination". Surely, it's not Gursky. Gursky is as Jery Salz said in his article::
Unfortunately, as smart and deft as this artist (Gursky) still is, that fizz has gone flat, the power has run low, the former buzz has become a drone.
Why would we like to experience with our little 1200 pixels what Gursky shows in his mega prints is lost on me and I'm afraid that the love for a certain type of crispiness will again be detrimental to the exercise of photography here.
Some of you discussed in a recent forum the value of looking at photography in an album, a book versus printed large in an exhibition
flat and soulless etc
Gursky is best seen when printed, that's how he intended it I think. Overpowering. |
yup, thanks for the reminder.. the images I've seen at MOMA have been large and bold... hard to replicate here. |
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11/23/2014 09:11:53 AM · #28 |
Well.
Just about everything said about Gursky's big busy photos can also be said about any landscape. Most especially the [yawn]. |
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11/23/2014 10:53:29 AM · #29 |
PS to my other post.
I don't mean to deter anybody from trying his/her hand at this challenge.
Gursky's images are vast and dispassionate and thus go to the core of our times but are meant and best seen printed in huge format (as opposed to other style of photography).
I recently saw a show of one of my favorite photographers, Abelardo Morell and his miraculous images were lost printed large and hung on the wall like paintings.
There are places that are meant to be photographed by Gursky - the libraries, the slums, the stock exchange, the supermarket....Seeing his work displayed is an experience and being engrossed in the materialistic aspect of our times I am not surprised at all that he photographed the sea.
On a different topic. I am so sorry Richard for your past health problems. Keep taking photos and looking at the marvels of the world in great health! |
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11/23/2014 06:58:38 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
You might want to look also at other "digital experiences" as the French call it, at "hyperphotos" such as Jean Francois Rauzier's concoctions. Just google his name for a "feast of imagination". |
I never heard of the guy before, but I love his work.
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11/23/2014 07:39:37 PM · #31 |
| Well, I have one but though it fits in some ways, it really doesn't in others. Think I'll sit this one out. |
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11/23/2014 10:19:25 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by nam:
Well, I have one but though it fits in some ways, it really doesn't in others. Think I'll sit this one out. |
Mine doesn't fit quite as well as I would have liked. But, I am in. |
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11/24/2014 11:34:54 AM · #33 |
| Must be the Pet Rock phenomenon. #1, #6 and #7 on the list. |
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11/24/2014 11:57:00 AM · #34 |
I don't know what the phenomenon is. I can't explain why any of these 10 photographs command a $2+ million price when other images that I find more interesting sell for a lot less. To each his own, I guess. |
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