Hi, I'm not saying your pictures are of middle-class places - the pictures my friend took were. But yours don't seem to me to be as bad as perhaps you think. There's a lot around that's a lot worse.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: 25 August 2006 22:30 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO -- Good Intentions + Bad Plan = > > I guess England is different. Middle class people can afford a lot > better in the US. Canada too probably. To my eye this place > is bleak, > at best, warehouses for unwanted people. The people who were living > there knew that and treated it accordingly. It's clean now because > there is almost no one left living there. One or two apartments are > still occupied, the rest are empty and the windows are > boarded up, (the > windows were mostly broken as of a couple of weeks ago), and > as soon as > there are places to move the last couple of tenants that project is > coming down. If you like being warehoused more power to you. > > Bob W wrote: > > >Those places look ok. Your picture reminds me of a project that a > >friend of mine did when we were about 20 years old and relatively new > >to photography. He comes from rather a privileged background, but > >resolved to take socially-aware pictures, so he spent some weeks > >working on his project. At the end he showed his shocking expose of > >squalid housing and bad conditions to the local socialist rag, and > >they laughed themselves sick. He'd taken pictures of ordinary > >lower-middle-class homes. > > > >-- > >Cheers, > > Bob > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>Behalf Of P. J. Alling > >>Sent: 25 August 2006 21:42 > >>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>Subject: PESO -- Good Intentions + Bad Plan = > >> > >>One more PESO today. This one's a B&W conversion, with a little > >> > >> > >back > > > > > >>story. In the 1950's and 1960's a social experiment was > >>attempted. It > >>was thought that lives of the poor would be improved if they got > >> > >> > >free > > > > > >>government housing. So local governments got grants to build this > >>stuff. Under the banner of "Urban Renewal" vibrant but poor > >>neighborhoods were torn down and replaced with places like this. > >> > >> > >Now > > > > > >>they are being replaced with neighborhoods that look like the > >>ones that > >>were there originally. Usually color makes a bad place look > >>better, but > >>not this place, it still looks like a prison. I chose B&W > >>because I was > >>attempting a gritty old time newspaper look. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_goodintentionsbadplan.html > > > > > >>Technical Info.: > >> > >>Pentax *ist-Ds ISO 1600 @ 1/4000sec (Av) > >>smc Pentax F 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 @f8.0 (70mm) > >> > >>B&W conversion Note: > >> > >>This is a many layered conversion. It's the same one I've > >>used before, > >>but I added a copy layer just above the background to emulate film > >>grain. I was looking for something like a fine grain 35mm > >>film from the > >>1960s or 1970s sort of like Plus-X Pan. It doesn't look like any > >>particular film but maybe like some film. > >> > >>As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as > >>modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess > >>the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and > >>recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on > >>others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do > >>anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it > >> > >>P. J. O'Rourke > >> > >> > >>-- > >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>[email protected] > >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > > Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as > modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess > the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and > recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on > others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do > anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it > > P. J. O'Rourke > > > -- > 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
