Thursday, June 14, 2007
Dublin 4 - forget Parnell
Comments:
Although the eye line between the poster and the woman browsing is of interest, I'm finding the geometry of this much more interesting. All the rectangles within rectangles - the poster, the phone cards, the window frames etc - give some order to an otherwise busy shot. But then the curve of the clerk's slumping back provides a nice counterpoint. Well done.
I hope that paintwork isn't visible at the same time as that commuter carriage that you posted before.
I'm with Matt on the geometry. I also like the way you've captured two impending bad backs in one shot.
The lady is in a hurry in the most modern of ways.
An excellent use of colour (and a most unusual hue at that). The lady left's expression plays well with the poster girl's one. The apparantly floating help wanted notice adds a touch of wizardry which seems to be what I get from that purple colour too. Though the phone cards(?) are a mixed bag of colours they work well in a mozaic way.
Colin - now you mention it I remember reading about the AT on your site but I benefited from it back in the '80s and never looked back.
Excellent use of color indeed. And a moment frozen in time at just the right point How do you get your subjects to wear just the right thing? Or did you wait for just the right person? The black and white outfit is perfect to make her stand out from the colors behind.
Thanks for the comments on this.
Christina - I assume that your questions are rhetorical! This is Moore St; seemingly one of the last vestiges of old Dublin and about to be demolished for a giant mall. Although I read in the Lonely Planet that Dublin now has a strong ethnic mix, it came as a slight surprise to find a mini-London and Moore St already has ethnic variety hard-wired in. We arrived just before 10 am on a rainy morning and market stalls were still being set up - she was almost the first person I saw!
It is difficult to square Ireland's history of emigration with, for instance, the strong presence of today's European equivalents - Poles.
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I'm with Matt on the geometry. I also like the way you've captured two impending bad backs in one shot.
The lady is in a hurry in the most modern of ways.
Christina - I assume that your questions are rhetorical! This is Moore St; seemingly one of the last vestiges of old Dublin and about to be demolished for a giant mall. Although I read in the Lonely Planet that Dublin now has a strong ethnic mix, it came as a slight surprise to find a mini-London and Moore St already has ethnic variety hard-wired in. We arrived just before 10 am on a rainy morning and market stalls were still being set up - she was almost the first person I saw!
It is difficult to square Ireland's history of emigration with, for instance, the strong presence of today's European equivalents - Poles.