Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you find the photo interesting - that is precisely the quality I look for in photos.
On clichés, I take the same view as George Orwell which is that they are generally a substitute for thinking. He was discussing writing, but I think it applies equally to photography. Orwell wrote a very interesting essay about it, which you can read here if you like: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm Many of his ideas were worked out in '1984' as Nuspeak. The composition and dullness in the photo are intentional. How would you improve the composition? -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jens Bladt > Sent: 25 June 2006 13:59 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: Is this a cliché? > > There's nothing wrong with using clichés. We do it all the > time. It's a part > of our cultural inheritance. > Our language is almost nothing but clichés. Any common phrase > is a cliché. > With out clichés there would be almost no communication possible. > A cliché photograph may not be of great artistic value. > Most photographs aren't. But that doesn't mean they are of no > interest or of > no value. > I could say the same about most paintings as well. > The photograph is kinda boring - mostly because of the rather dull > composition - putting the subject/car/van in the middle is > not very pleasing > to me. There's a reddish cast in the sky, wich is not very > pleasing to me > either. But this can be changed. But the main statement is still > interesting, I think. So to me it's still an interesting > image. Cliché or > not. > I t would be even more interesting in a size where I can read > that it's in > fact an ice cream truck on a deserted beach (isn't it ?). > > Regards > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > vegne af Tim > Øsleby > Sendt: 25. juni 2006 12:48 > Til: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Emne: RE: Is this a cliché? > > > I would not call this image a cliché. > > But if it is, would that turn it into a bad photo? > I don't think so. The main thing with an image is that it "works". > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds > (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of > > Bob W > > Sent: 17. juni 2006 11:53 > > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > > Subject: Is this a cliché? > > > > Hi, > > > > I took this photo in Robin Hood's Bay last week: > > http://www.web-options.com/Places/pages/P6120594.htm > > > > I rather like it, but at the time I took it it seemed very > familiar to > > me, and I can't shake the nagging feeling that I've seen an almost > > identical black & white photo elsewhere. > > > > I've searched the likeliest books I have, to no avail. > > > > I have also searched the Magnum site, and only found this: > > > http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/CSearchZ_MAG.aspx?Stat=SearchThumb_S > > > earchZoom&o=&Total=10&FP=2736851&E=2V6DH6V3CHIK3&SID=JMGEJNTXNEL0T&Pic > > =8&SubE=29YL5354ACP8 > > > > http://tinyurl.com/f4jl6 > > > > But I don't think that's the one I have in mind. I have > tried googling > > various terms, but haven't come up with anything. Yet I > still think it > > is rather a cliché. > > > > Can anybody else identify a similar photo? > > > > Thanks, > > Bob > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.3/374 - Release > Date: 06/23/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.3/374 - Release > Date: 06/23/2006 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
