Monday, October 22, 2007
Doors
This is old work, around 2000 That year and the following I went several times to that place. It does not exist anymore. I never got around the full editing. I go on and off thinking there is a potential for a good series. If not entirely boring for all, I'll post the candidates and see what comes out of it.
Thanks for the help :-)
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A scene that seems it should be ugly -- peeling paint, holes in the ceiling, debris and dirt -- but add in some doors in various tones, a deep hallway ending with a window, some nice light and you have one very interesting and beautiful image.
Good title Stephane!
Like a giant tree falling on the forest floor so a building that is no longer used will be turned into something else. Decay and transition. Photographically, this is serendipity: all those doors of different tones transform this into a series of questions.
A series, though, would have to answer to the question: what is it about? Is it a hospital that no longer serves the community or a great house, whose owner can no longer afford to maintain it?
Thanks for the comments. Sorry about the forgotten title, that's now corrected.
The place was a coke factory. Not the soda, but the thing they made from coal.
This was in the administrative part. I shot meters of film there, not everything is even scanned.
A prequel for the Matrix?
The doors recede well through the image inviting me in. The tonal range is good, almost stark.
Technically it looks like the coke dust might have got on the negative? :-)
I like this very much. The doors block my way a little but that bright light at the end keeps me walking through. My only quibble would be to see a little more behind the first door and the room that the second door opens in to. Many repeating patterns and wonderful texture. Well scene and executed.
A variation on the dream of running down a hall lined with closed doors?
"Technically it looks like the coke dust might have got on the negative? :-)"
That was my thought as well. Is this negative particularly thin? There is more noise in the shadows than I'm used to seeing from you.
As to a series, I'm intrigued. Show us the rest.
Thanks to all again.
The neg is not particularly thin, if I remember well. Neopan 400 at IE 200 should not be, anyway. A better re-scan would help immensely. That's for after the exhibition at the earliest :-)
I'll try to be more careful for the other ones, I see we have sharp eyes round here :-)
John already said what I would have said, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of the series to see how it fits together and how we come to understand the subject.
I like the grain and it is interesting how it matches the subject matter. An ex-coke factory invites further viewing.
Doors have always had an interet to me, and these doors and hallway is very intreging; doors represent opportunities to me, to or not to enter, and if one opens will another close? These are haunting doors. The dark foreground works well with the ilumenating far window beckoning. Even the pattern of dark and light doors is mysterious.
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Like a giant tree falling on the forest floor so a building that is no longer used will be turned into something else. Decay and transition. Photographically, this is serendipity: all those doors of different tones transform this into a series of questions.
A series, though, would have to answer to the question: what is it about? Is it a hospital that no longer serves the community or a great house, whose owner can no longer afford to maintain it?
The place was a coke factory. Not the soda, but the thing they made from coal.
This was in the administrative part. I shot meters of film there, not everything is even scanned.
The doors recede well through the image inviting me in. The tonal range is good, almost stark.
Technically it looks like the coke dust might have got on the negative? :-)
"Technically it looks like the coke dust might have got on the negative? :-)"
That was my thought as well. Is this negative particularly thin? There is more noise in the shadows than I'm used to seeing from you.
As to a series, I'm intrigued. Show us the rest.
The neg is not particularly thin, if I remember well. Neopan 400 at IE 200 should not be, anyway. A better re-scan would help immensely. That's for after the exhibition at the earliest :-)
I'll try to be more careful for the other ones, I see we have sharp eyes round here :-)