Monday, September 24, 2007
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Comments:
It seems to be an open-air sculpture park rather than a museum but perhaps the latter is behind you!
So the moral of the story must be not to get too close to the big guy! Or, alternatively, someone dropped a mannequin on the way to the museum. It's all wonderfully Alice in Wonderland with some (to me) typical Japanese woodland and hills as backdrop. It must be well worth a visit.
The tonal treatment brings out the feel for the place.
The mannequin grabs my attention in this image, it is just so incongruous. I know that seems odd given the presence of a four metre high giant but there it is!
I'm thinking that the "big guy" is female -- at least it seems to be carrying a purse. Not a typical Japanese woman, that's for sure.
It's all delightfully lovely and then also very strange. I like it in black and white, but I'm imagining colors, maybe some reds and yellows in the smaller trees, and bright primary colors in the giant. The very relaxed figure on the ground seems to almost be a part of it.
Tremendously interesting and beautifully composed.
Was the valley foggy? Or is something else going on it that upper left quadrant?
Overall, I don't know about this. The big girl is weird, and that is potentially interesting, but it isn't coming together as a photograph for me.
I quoted: "A photograph is a brief collusion between foresight and chance. It need not invite reflection, so much as create a shock which alerts the viewer to the strangeness of the passage." on my site yesterday. This picture certainly qualifies as an example of the second half. I don't think it works visually - there are too many loose ends, competing slopes and so on - but you've undeniably made me sit up and take notice.
Is the white statue the White Knight who came to save the poor victim?
It is amazing how this looks like a theater scene.
Thanks for the feedback. Stephane is closest with my thoughts upon seeing/making this shot. Earlier on in Stills we had a discussion about photographing art. Upon visiting this museum I thought long and hard about each shot I took and tried to lift it slightly above a memorial of a sculpture. The museum was great to walk around. They have many sculptures in some beautiful surroundings and also a large (and changing) Picasso exhibition.
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So the moral of the story must be not to get too close to the big guy! Or, alternatively, someone dropped a mannequin on the way to the museum. It's all wonderfully Alice in Wonderland with some (to me) typical Japanese woodland and hills as backdrop. It must be well worth a visit.
The tonal treatment brings out the feel for the place.
It's all delightfully lovely and then also very strange. I like it in black and white, but I'm imagining colors, maybe some reds and yellows in the smaller trees, and bright primary colors in the giant. The very relaxed figure on the ground seems to almost be a part of it.
Tremendously interesting and beautifully composed.
Overall, I don't know about this. The big girl is weird, and that is potentially interesting, but it isn't coming together as a photograph for me.
It is amazing how this looks like a theater scene.