On 7/5/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few years, ever since seeing Elliott Erwitt's famous portrait > of the cellist, Cassals, I've been making portraits of people by showing > something of their environment, trying to capture a bit of who they are, > their interests, personalities, without including the person in the shot. > You've seen some of these photos posted here before. Here's a recent > portrait of my friend Linda. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/portrait.html
I agree with Bob. It's a nice enough still life, and I'm sure that for Linda and her friends, acquaintances and relatives it's meaningful, but knowing nothing about Linda myself, it doesn't have much resonance with me. As Bob said, we all knew that Cassals played the cello, so seeing a cello with the title Portrait of Pablo Cassals - while it raises eyebrows - makes sense to even the casual music fan. Unless one knows Linda, or something of her, the photo ends up being a very pleasant and well-executed still life. At least for me it does. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
