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07/26/2013 11:09:59 PM · #1 |
Emmet Gowin Challenge ?
Previous thread discussion
interview
Into the mindset, very worth it
Probably a tough one.....worth a revisit all the same
Message edited by author 2013-07-27 01:30:05. |
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07/26/2013 11:49:52 PM · #2 |
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07/27/2013 08:58:49 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
i am awed. let's do it |
+1 |
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07/27/2013 10:32:21 AM · #4 |
| i feel like i want to hang myself after looking at those images. |
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07/27/2013 10:37:05 AM · #5 |
| Absolutely beautiful, this is the stuff I love. |
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07/27/2013 12:38:39 PM · #6 |
We can try it and butcher it with over processing!
Now, for this type of photography one week does not seem enough time
Great idea John  daisydavid to resurrect the thread |
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07/27/2013 03:36:05 PM · #7 |
| six months seems about right. tune yourself with what so ordinarily essentially and easily overlookedly surrounds you. let the rainbow come to you. |
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07/27/2013 03:43:22 PM · #8 |
This would be wonderful. But what intrigues me most isn't the people pictures, it's the from-overhead shots that have dominated his work since the 1980's. He's a remarkable, even a great, photographer.
Mariuca, I promise not to overprocess this one :-) |
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07/28/2013 07:24:01 PM · #9 |
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07/28/2013 07:31:09 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Mike:
i feel like i want to hang myself after looking at those images. |
Same thought Mike. |
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07/28/2013 08:26:21 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Mike:
i feel like i want to hang myself after looking at those images. |
Is that because you don't like them, or do you feel miserably humbled ?
Message edited by author 2013-07-28 20:28:18. |
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07/28/2013 08:30:12 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by daisydavid:
Originally posted by Mike:
i feel like i want to hang myself after looking at those images. |
Is that because you don't like them, or do you feel miserably humbled ? |
humbled? hardly.
they just seem emotionally lifeless. not my style. |
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07/28/2013 10:19:50 PM · #13 |
| I'm also lukewarm about this work - I guess this makes me a heathen. Sorry, Bear. I'm missing what is so "great". I am, however, intrigued by his from above stuff. Always a cool angle. |
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07/28/2013 10:25:54 PM · #14 |
I didn't want to pipe up, since I'm all too often the sole asshole, but yeah... I don't see it.
What is the 'magic' here? Is it the rawness of the images, the poverty, the strangeness? What does it for you with these images? |
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07/28/2013 10:34:46 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Cory:
I didn't want to pipe up, since I'm all too often the sole asshole, but yeah... I don't see it.
What is the 'magic' here? Is it the rawness of the images, the poverty, the strangeness? What does it for you with these images? |
The mad thrill of it, the way Van Gogh paintings used to look before they became post cards.
But this is what happens with artists. No artist is for everybody. I don't get New Happiness in the slightest. |
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07/28/2013 10:36:23 PM · #16 |
you are so not the only asshole...
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07/28/2013 10:37:24 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
The way Van Gogh paintings used to look before they became post cards.
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How old are you again? ;) |
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07/28/2013 10:38:24 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by posthumous:
The way Van Gogh paintings used to look before they became post cards.
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How old are you again? ;) |
I'm 7. |
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07/28/2013 11:03:48 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
I'm also lukewarm about this work - I guess this makes me a heathen. Sorry, Bear. I'm missing what is so "great". I am, however, intrigued by his from above stuff. Always a cool angle. |
Gotta take it in context, partly. There's a visceral, intensely personal RAWNESS to the early, family work that was a real eye-opener in its day. Kinda like the way the confessional poets really, really got to you, until everybody became a confessional poet. Personally, it's the high-viewpoint work of the later years that gets to me the most.
He was an original. He wasn't derivative of much, if anything. That counts for a lot with me. |
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07/28/2013 11:03:49 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
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I'm 7. |
I wish I was 7. |
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07/28/2013 11:33:53 PM · #21 |
| So, he was a pioneer of a "style" in the way that Cindy Sherman was? If you happen upon their work for the first time, now, it's not as impressive as if you'd seen it when it was first presented? |
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07/28/2013 11:59:55 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
So, he was a pioneer of a "style" in the way that Cindy Sherman was? If you happen upon their work for the first time, now, it's not as impressive as if you'd seen it when it was first presented? |
I know I'm not Bear, and I have no stake in whether or not Gowin was first at anything (what about Sally Mann?) but I have my own answer.
Cindy Sherman is the participant in a struggle, not a style. "Style" is the term for people who imitate what she is really doing.
Emmet Gowin is new to me, but looking at his images, I'd say the same goes for him. |
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07/29/2013 12:15:02 AM · #23 |
| Thanks, Don. I guess I'm more fascinated by why I don't connect with these images... |
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07/29/2013 12:24:07 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Thanks, Don. I guess I'm more fascinated by why I don't connect with these images... |
One of the reasons I picked this IS because it pushes the boundaries in such a different way for the DPC crowd. It's one that is not so much about technique but of mood and connection. So much of the time the challenges are about technique, when was the last time one of our shots was about real life. |
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07/29/2013 01:09:00 AM · #25 |
| Don has it right. "Style" is something people impose after the fact, in an intensely human effort to name and categorize what they see, hear, and experience. Artists just create. Style is irrelevant to them. |
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