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14 Responses to “Efforts to improve”

1. 1 pinky
   October 12, 2005 at 10:24 pm

   aside from the very first one, i think these are really good. i have this strange love for architecual photography and i like the way most of these turned out. who’s the crack addict at the tarrymore?

   did you get the pictures i sent you of my daughter?

2. 2 Kathleen
   October 13, 2005 at 12:53 pm

   Um, those are pretty beautiful!

   I especially like 317455_317455-R2-E024 and 317455_317455-R2-E001 is strangely amusing.

   317455_317455-R2-E002 is supergreat, but I’m not sure it counts as architectural photography.

   317455_317455-R2-E028 is my favorite.

   These are good enough to get real titles!

   

3. 3 Wah
   October 13, 2005 at 2:01 pm

   The Tarrymore guy was nice and didn’t seem to be addicted to crack. I have since forgotten his name.

   Pinky- tell me what you don’t like about the first one.

   Kathleen- duly noted, titles are forthcoming.

4. 4 pinky
   October 13, 2005 at 4:14 pm

   sorry about the rash generalization on the Tarrymore guy.

   i think that the lighting is pretty cool, but the picture itself seems to lack any feeling. i suppose that is the main thing, unlike the other photos, that one seems like an uninterested subject.

   but, i am no great critic, so it’s just my opinion. all the others seemed to have some soul caught in them and that first one didn’t. bother, just my prattle. BTW, did you get the photos i sent you? and kathleen is right, they deserve names.

5. 5 Hud
   October 13, 2005 at 8:51 pm

   I really like the second one (E024).

   And I like the way the colors are all tweaked out on the old hotels, so that they look like old postcards.

   Generally speaking I get pissy about telephone poles. I hate them in pictures. I often wonder why I dislike them so much. There are some really great old black and white city scapes that have telephones poles and wires all over them.

   So, I don’t like the wires in the first one but I also don’t really dig on how the building is so close to horizontal but isn’t. I also feel like the image is slightly out of focus but I’m not sure why. It might be the shadows from the trees.

6. 6 Wah
   October 13, 2005 at 9:18 pm

   Without any intention of rudeness or condescension, I think you should go look at Lee Friedlander’s work, and really think about why it is that the telephone poles or lines bother you.

   I know that I sometimes am wrapped up in an effort to create images that lack a time, or don’t signify a time, but I feel there is a post-modern aspect to showing the power or phone lines, and I have come to appreciate the design “crutch” which they create. All of that being said I didn’t mean to have it slightly off horizontal, it was an accident.

7. 7 Hud
   October 14, 2005 at 12:46 am

   I checked out some of his stuff. I do like the post-modern addition of telephone lines in certain pictures but I also very often want them the out of the way. Hell, I usually don’t even want people in my pictures.

8. 8 Hud
   October 14, 2005 at 8:42 am

   By the way, I meant to ask you to talk more about his photographs, what makes them good or interesting. I won’t ask if they are beautiful though.

9. 9 Wah
   October 14, 2005 at 9:03 am

   I assume you not asking about beauty is some philosophy meaning of beauty thing . . .

   http://www.vindaugagallery.com/index.php/archives/51

   I think his images are interesting in a reactionary sense; his work has evolved significantly throughout his career, and his recent work using elements normally avoided by traditional photographers as design and commentary is, and has been very influential on modern photography.

   But to really answer the question of what makes them good: if you like the photos, they are good.

10. 10 Kathleen
    October 14, 2005 at 11:19 am

    I always thought Lee Friedlander was a woman.

    D’oh!

11. 11 pinky
    October 14, 2005 at 12:09 pm

    I LOVE THE ADDED IMAGE!!! i actually gasped, then went “oooooh”. names!! these all need names!!!

    sorry for sounding so much like my brother, sometimes i can’t help it.

12. 12 hud
    October 14, 2005 at 12:31 pm

    HA!My first thought was “he added this image with all these lines in it just to spite me.” Damn you Wah! placing my nemesis before me. One day the power lines and I shall have it out and then, brothers and sisters, we shall see who has the true will to power!

13. 13 dig
    October 17, 2005 at 6:52 pm

    the redmond court image is real nice. strong color, good contrast and good composition. city scenes tend to have strong lines which can’t be ignored.
    for some reason, I thought of Ruscha.

14. 14 Wah
    October 18, 2005 at 4:54 pm

    Ruscha? is that the guy that did the stadard oil gas station painting/drawing/”i don’t really remember” thing?