Thursday, September 20, 2007
Queen Elizabeth Hall
From the, seemingly, officially-sanctioned graffiti-decorated concrete vaults to the rarefied heights of the concert hall courtesy of a 16mm focal length. The Queen Elizabeth Hall (with the Purcell Room) sits one along from the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank.
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I love the angles and vertical vanishing point in this image.
The creeping graffiti leading up to the official sign produces a good juxtaposition.
This makes me want to see it in person. The graffiti is so colorful and interesting -- I like the angles, too.
Without know exactly what this is, I can help feeling that the graffiti shouldn't be on what looks like a grand - in scale at least - public building. It makes for good photography, though. As christina mentioned, there's a lot going on with the angularity of this.
I can't help wondering what this would look like with stormy skies in place of the blue.
My view of the South Bank is altogether more dim and dingy than this, whereas your shot clearly works as a brochure shot. Come to the Sunny South Bank....
The angles and perspective are good. I can imagine looking up like this.
Matt - a day later and you might have had an answer. However, one needs light to be penetrating the basement otherwise this would be very dark at the bottom.
Colin - so you are officially condoning graffiti as well!
I really like this image, it just seems to work for me, the shapes, the color contrast of the upper and lower parts of the building, the light and flow of the image, it just seems to all come together. I can just let this set on my monitor and I keep finding something more the longer I view it.
I know that we're in danger of flogging the South Bank to death but this one on my site does tend to sum up the legitimised status of the graffiti in the basement:
http://www.johnelliseone.co.uk/gallery/photo.php?photo=956&exhibition=41&u=468|29|...
I saw this and immediately thought of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". This works well geometrically. A plethora of angles contrive to somehow give a smooth finish. The graffiti acts as weeds growing every upwards to the segment of blue at the top. That hard black triangle top left is a vital part of the whole here. Without it the shot would become much more open and of less impact. This blackness is repeated a couple of times within the frame which doesn't make it look out of place.
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The creeping graffiti leading up to the official sign produces a good juxtaposition.
I can't help wondering what this would look like with stormy skies in place of the blue.
The angles and perspective are good. I can imagine looking up like this.
Colin - so you are officially condoning graffiti as well!
http://www.johnelliseone.co.uk/gallery/photo.php?photo=956&exhibition=41&u=468|29|...