These comments connect to my way of seeing both photography &
painting, & are neatly put....
Thanks Chris.
Doug
On 1-Feb-09, at 11:09 PM, Christopher C Jones wrote:
> One must observe all the elements in the image as shapes of
> abstraction.
> Now his ordinary objects have transformed to something extraordinary.
>
> [Later]
> He added atmosphere and breathing space in his image. He opened
> possibilities of pure straight photography with his poetic style. Can
> you feel the air? Can you hear the sound of silence from this
> photograph? This breathing space and sublime light remind me of the
> paintings by color field painter, Mark Rothko. Although "Windowsill
> Daydreaming" is a black and white image, and not a color photograph,
> it
> still shares the same kind of mood and emotional reaction as if I were
> experiencing Rothko's infinite light. White's photograph also had a
> soft-feathered edge of light and shadows in the reflected light on the
> wall, which evokes "an out of body experience" and "ideal spiritual
> space".
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