Hi Bob! How can we see the rest of the images? All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 18. tammikuuta 2003 17:53 Aihe: Re: Luc Delahaye's _Winterreise_ >Hi Mike, > >I'm really glad you like the book. It won the Oaskar Barnack prize a >couple of years ago, deservedly. I agree with you about the >sequencing. One part that is particularly effective is where he's >shooting from a train and we see the dark, winter forest interspersed >with the idealised forest on the wallpaper. It's a very fine metaphor. > >I was in Moscow for about a week at the same time that he was (Nov. >1988), and that quality of light outdoors is of the place itself. It's >very beauftiful and melancholic. Several of the pictures I took while I >was there are rather similar to some of his, including this one >http://www.web-options.com/pcd4671/img0039.jpg which is a bit like one >just before the forest sequence. A 3rd 'version' of this photo won a >prize for the photographer in the Kobal Photographic Portrait Awards a >couple of years ago, so even though I thought it was a bit of a cliche >when I took it, it seems to be a popular one! Anyway, it shows >something of that quality of light that you mentioned. > >I also took a few shots, which I like, of a statue in Gorky Park (Park >Kultury) similar to (but not as good as) Delahaye's cover. I never got as >'down and dirty' as him though. Some of the photos are very gruelling. >Another Magnum photographer who's done some stunning work in Russia is >Lise Sarfati. > >--- > > Bob > >Saturday, January 18, 2003, 4:03:25 PM, you wrote: > >> Sir Robert, >> I received the first book from your list last night, Luc Delahaye's >> _Winterreise_. > >> Fascinating production--the design of the book is highly unusual to say the >> least, and I think flirts just between being very effective and making the >> pictures hard to see! But there's no doubt about the power of the >> pictures...what a bleak world, what intense sequencing. I don't quite even >> know how he got that peculiar technical quality, but in some cases the >> characters look like statues on tableaux, with stage lighting...very >> effective. > >> Overall it seems the artwork is the book itself, as well as the >> pictures...an "authored" photo book like Evans's _American Photographs_. >> Actually, a better example would be Weegee's _Naked City_. > >> Thanks for the recommendation. I'm very pleased to make Delahaye's >> acquaintance, and to add this little gem to my bookshelf. > >> --Mike >
