Hello,
as an industrial photographer myself, I shouldn't judge probably,
but I can only agree with Tony.
My personal opinion is, that an industrial photographer should
honor the photographed subject. I hate to see industrial heritage
abused for pseudo-artistic purposes. Unfortunately, this kind
of "industrial-culture" is also en vogue and advocated by
German authorities who try to make people forget the real roots
of industrial industry.
Sorry for my somewhat non scientific contribution, but I
would like to point out, that there is a real tendency that
people "funnyize" our industrial monuments, i.e. turn them
into meaningless "funny" objects without looking at their
historic background.
Kind regards
Harald
On 06/03/2011 11:29 AM, Tony Clarke wrote:
> Edward,
>
> With regard to the weburbanist (whatever that purports to mean) website, I can truthfully say that I have never come across a more repetitively pretentious collection of cornish mining images in my entire life.
>
> Further, I had to laugh at the reference to 'brawns-age'.
>
> The added captions (in what I can only presume is intended to be English) were consistently annoying, with their Pseuds Corner references to 'Romanesque arches' and the 'hauntingly beautiful aura' produced by some contrived backlit, flashlit, super wide-angle, 'coverging verticals' images that had no connection whatever with their immediate environment. I was sickened, and hope never again to see this sort of thing on my monitor!
>
> Tony Clarke
>
>> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:45:16 -0700
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Photo Essay on Cornwall's Abandoned Mines
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> http://weburbanist.com/2011/05/29/brawns-age-cornwalls-scenic-abandoned-mines/
>>
>> Weburbanist specializes in picturesque ruins and hallmark architectures
>> departing from the norm. I liked the page.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Edward Hennessey
>
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Dr.-Ing. Harald Finster / Aachen Germany
http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
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