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05/23/2015 01:54:08 AM |
| Lovely Herman. A heartfelt look beyond the superficial and into the character of your subjects. You remind us that they are real, they are full of life and personality, something that is often overlooked. The quality is more than enough to give us the joy of your and their sharing. Well done. |
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05/11/2015 04:45:20 PM |
Herman, your X-rays of the soul of theses people is a formidable endeavor.
I prefer to look at the pictures one after each because they have this spectacular quality of revealing the essence; we see the beauty behind the aged face, the pain of the all-smiles man, the diffidence of an old matronâ€Â¦.
The slides, although really appealing are more predictable: this is what time does while the individual photographs get you behind the facade, no matter the ravages of time.
The first (and last image) with the man still searching for some meaning but totally at peace is haunting. Almost an El Greco. |
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05/08/2015 07:42:54 PM |
the more i look the more i'm thinking the closeups are the essence the full shots have so much window dressing it hides the impact.
i feel i get lost in the forest when i should be more interested in the trees. |
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05/04/2015 01:36:35 PM |
| What an interesting and clever essay. I did not have a connection to the color images-just saw a picture of a nondescript older person. I had little interest in knowing more. Then, surprisingly, I immediately connected with the close-up black and white. It was as if i could understand something about them as a person and would be interested to know more. I don't know if my take on your essay says more about me or your essay but either way it gives me something interesting to think about. |
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05/02/2015 07:56:27 PM |
| of course it is not just the closeup that changes the perception, but the transitions from bright colors to dark and contrasty BW. Worked really well, sometimes it was so hard to believe it was the same image, I found myself going back and forth and checking it :). By the way, in the good old days Soviet propaganda used a similar trick regularly by taking a piece of colorful western footage and then fading it into BW, sometimes even into a negative, with suitably ominous soundtrack behind. We felt so sorry for you guys living in such hell behind a thin colorful facade :) |
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05/01/2015 03:06:41 AM |
This is an interesting idea. I preferred it as a slideshow, mostly because I don't care so much about the better quality images ... "Never mind the quality, feel the width!".
As a slideshow it has a dimension not evident in the individual images. That is a feeling that the colour shots are people who have aged to bear a close resemblance to their departed grandparents, seen in the old, heavily-cropped B&W shots. They do look like each other; the family resemblance is there, but they're not exactly the same. Once you start think that anarchic thought, it's irresistible: you can spot small but conclusive differences in every 'pair', proving that it's really cleverly-matched pictures of people and their grandparents.
Absorbing & thoughtful essay. |
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04/30/2015 10:29:51 PM |
Herman, welcome back!
This is an interesting concept that I̢۪m not sure I̢۪ve seen before. Your color portraits are like bookends for the b&w closeup. A collection of memories we won̢۪t or can̢۪t let go. Almost haunting how they fade in and out. It's hard not to think of mortality when viewing your essay. |
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04/30/2015 08:17:25 PM |
| another example of how an essay is more than the sum of its parts. full-body and close-up are different and not different to varying degrees for each person, and once you've got us investigating the relationship, we are completely drawn into the exercise. |
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