Well, I certainly agree with your comments here, Chris.
I guess I tend to like formal beauty however achieved, & felt that the fish as you presented them seems too plain. What you are suggesting, the ghost images overlaying others, that sense of depth of shift, could do something very interesting. Titles, subtle & pointing, might help too, without too much explanation...
Just thinking it through a bit....
To get a series that does help its viewers see what youre saying the series is about seems a powerful thing to strive for....
Doug
On 2012-04-24, at 3:35 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> Thanks Doug, have been thinking about it some more and collected some shells and seaweed which I photographed on a white sheet of paper. I wish to superimpose images of shells and fish as ghost-like transparent images over the mast images.
>
> There is also a (personal) discussion to which I was privy some years ago, which attacked Annie Leibovitz, who asked what I thought an innocent question on repetition of waves, when she was using a large format camera to do so. She was attacked with hostile misogynist and homophobic comments which included hostile attacks on other gay art photographers, including Minor White. (Another well known art photographer who died of AIDS was also a silent unspoken in these attacks.)
>
> So, I became aware of this (somewhat) suppressed memory in the Marina and Flood Watch series I am working with. I have some disagreements with Annie's poetics and her lover, Susan Sontag, on photography. But despite this, these series need also to be a tribute to these two lovers.
>
> As for the hostile misogynist and homophobic attacks on Annie, how can people be so cruel to attack another human being while her lover is dying? This, to me, is also what the series are about.
>
> It took a little time and thinking before I could get this far. (And tears...) I need to make this clearer in the images, so thanks for the comments... most valued.
>
>
>
>
> On 24/04/12 00:39, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> The fish are interesting as metaphors, Chris, but may need that explanation: as pure visual, I still find the mast reflections most engaging....
>
>
> --
> http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/
>
Douglas Barbour
[log in to unmask]
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Latest books:
Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
The palms rattle, the eucalypts
shed bark and blossom. Uninterpreted.
Denise Levertov.
|