P. J. Alling wrote: > 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.
Bet the folks still living in tents after Katrina would be glad of the use of them. > > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
