Comments on: Through the Eye of the Beholder http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/through-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ Finding something in nothing... Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:19:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: truthoughts http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/through-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-161 truthoughts Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:26:16 +0000 http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-161 Thank you Brittany, I agree :-) Thank you Brittany, I agree :-)

]]> By: Brittany http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/through-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-160 Brittany Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:33 +0000 http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-160 i personally love the pictures. i take nothing but black and white pictures. i love the emotion it makes you feel. i personally love the pictures. i take nothing but black and white pictures. i love the emotion it makes you feel.

]]> By: truthoughts http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/through-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-112 truthoughts Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:25:16 +0000 http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-112 Brad, Thank you for your comment. I hear what you are saying... I suppose that my interests lie deeper than the surface of the picture as far as technique, etc. My mind tends to wonder on what they saw in that moment and what they may have been thinking. I wonder what their lives were like and if they are still alive, what they have become. For some reason, looking into their eyes in this picture just captivates me in regards to what I have stated. I appreciate your suggestions and I will definietly check out Lange and Evans. Thank you again for your comment. Have an excellent day! Alison Brad,

Thank you for your comment. I hear what you are saying… I suppose that my interests lie deeper than the surface of the picture as far as technique, etc. My mind tends to wonder on what they saw in that moment and what they may have been thinking. I wonder what their lives were like and if they are still alive, what they have become. For some reason, looking into their eyes in this picture just captivates me in regards to what I have stated. I appreciate your suggestions and I will definietly check out Lange and Evans. Thank you again for your comment. Have an excellent day!

Alison

]]> By: brad http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/through-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-111 brad Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:56:33 +0000 http://truthoughtstoday.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-111 Sorry to say it, but the '44 pic of the kids is one i trot out in my photo classes to show that Ansel Adams, for all his prowess at shooting landscapes, couldn't shoot people worth a plug nickel. Compared to Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, or any of the other big WPA-era photographers, it's just not that arresting. (imho.) The kids look distracted, the print isn't very good (probably he knew it wasn't a great shot) and the only one we connect to is the baby, who just sort of looks like a baby. It's also taken from rather far away, making the dark obscurity of their surrounding all the more opaque and uninformative. Which is not to say it doesn't move you, but that if you like this, you should really check out Lange and Evans, who really have this subject under control. Sorry to say it, but the ‘44 pic of the kids is one i trot out in my photo classes to show that Ansel Adams, for all his prowess at shooting landscapes, couldn’t shoot people worth a plug nickel. Compared to Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, or any of the other big WPA-era photographers, it’s just not that arresting. (imho.) The kids look distracted, the print isn’t very good (probably he knew it wasn’t a great shot) and the only one we connect to is the baby, who just sort of looks like a baby. It’s also taken from rather far away, making the dark obscurity of their surrounding all the more opaque and uninformative.

Which is not to say it doesn’t move you, but that if you like this, you should really check out Lange and Evans, who really have this subject under control.

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