Hi, Didn't mean to be overly critical, but if it's an effort to document the area, then I'd like to see the context. All I see here is the art of another. Paul On Jan 13, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> Hello Paul, > > I'm not quite sure how to take your post, so I will try not to read > anything into it. > > You may recall that I started this series with the following comment: > > "One of the things I want to do this > year is to photograph the areas in > which I live and frequent, making > photos of the things that may be > interesting, unusual, or that in some > way reflect the culture and the > atmosphere of the area. I don't > expect great social commentaries, or > for the pics to always be well composed, > artistic images, but, rather, just a > few glimpses of the things around the > area that night reflect the sensibilities of > the people living and working in these > neighborhoods." > > IOW, the pic is a document of something in the area that I saw that > seemed > worthy of documenting. Transforming and heavy manipulation are out > of the > question for these pics. They are what they are and that's all > that they > are ... > > As for the meaning, well, that's up to the individual of course, > although I > have found some meaning in the image. > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Paul Stenquist > >> I guess I'm not sure what it means, but it's interesting. I might >> have gone to transform/distort and squared it off. It's an >> interesting record of something that someone created, but I don't >> think it goes beyond recording the art of another. >> Paul >> On Jan 13, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> >>> Continuing to photograph the area in which I live and frequent, >>> this one >>> has also become part of my flag series. For those who know the >>> area, this >>> was photographed on the border between Emeryville and Northwest >>> Oakland, >>> right near Interstate 80, in a semi-industrial area. The wall is >>> sealed >>> off behind a chain link fence, so it was a little difficult to get >>> as close >>> as I might have liked. Nonetheless, I think the shot turned out OK. >>> >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~pdml-pics/amwall.html > > > > -- > 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
