Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Cars
Comments:
I have to admit to rather liking this (the picture being more intellectual than emotional). I've been trying to place it in your 'not a car shot' category and decided that, even though it meets a lot of the criteria, it is a car shot!
There's such a lot in there that it is hard to know where to start; perhaps with the most obvious: the juxtaposition of the mirror view with what's in front. Tailback meets tailback. I wasn't sure whether that was a ferry behind you but decided that it wasn't. Then there is the house leading to the line of trees on a slope; an archetypal Scottish urban view (it reminds me of around Dumbarton). But it is the grinding oppression of slow-moving traffic that predominates and the 'nice' photographic framing and juxtaposition can do nothing to soften that impression. So it is about cars, even if not a single single one.
In a car, surrounded by cars -- definitely about cars. This is not a foreign scene to me! (Although that fence/wall is not like any I've seen).
Puts the viewer right into the middle of the image. Not a pretty sight, but I like this image for how well it works on different levels.
Like the cars in front and behind I feel very hemmed in looking at this photograph. Albeit that the only discernible border is top left. It also is interesting to me that I look at this shot from the bottom left. Probably because I know a door is close by... Most interesting.
The frames within frames within frames create an odd sense of space extending forward and backward through the scene, almost like a pair of mirrors facing eachother.
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There's such a lot in there that it is hard to know where to start; perhaps with the most obvious: the juxtaposition of the mirror view with what's in front. Tailback meets tailback. I wasn't sure whether that was a ferry behind you but decided that it wasn't. Then there is the house leading to the line of trees on a slope; an archetypal Scottish urban view (it reminds me of around Dumbarton). But it is the grinding oppression of slow-moving traffic that predominates and the 'nice' photographic framing and juxtaposition can do nothing to soften that impression. So it is about cars, even if not a single single one.
Puts the viewer right into the middle of the image. Not a pretty sight, but I like this image for how well it works on different levels.