Friday, December 14, 2007
Lone Bowl
This is a room that's on the right, just before entering another huge hall. Most probably, a room where workers gathered during breaks. During all the time I spent on that site I touched nothing an just photographed what I found. The bowl was there, that way, so obvious I had to wonder why.
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...and scattered newspapers. An interesting addition to the picture of institutional factory architecture and decoration. Philosophically, I can't work out whether the dynamism of the wide angle overwhelms the dead-centre bowl or provides an intriguing contrast with the vulnerability of the latter.
The contrast of the dark table and surronding area with the whiteness of the bowl, realy draws my attention to that bowl, and all of the questions that then arise. The image is also a bit disorienting with the angles and perspective, but that unsettling off kilter feeling adds to the image for me.
The bowl seems to float there. As Doug pointed out, there is something slightly disturbing about the perspective; I think it's the distortion in the background that makes this unsettling. It works well with all these deep shadows.
That bowl holds centre stage and like my comment to Christina's previous shot I'm curious as to your motivations to placing the bowl as you do in the overall composition of the shot. It holds the table down well where it is but a generall falling away to the bottom left of the shot can't stop me from wondering if it would have been better to have placed it a little less central to either work with the slope or counterbalance it. Well seen.
The bowl was there, that way, so obvious I had to wonder why.
because another photographer had got there before you and moved it from under the table!
That bench cuts off the bottom left corner and then the lightness of the table islolates it further from the rest of the image. So the bowl is the centre of attention on the centre of attention. (?)
I don't know what else you could have done, but the distortion and the overall perspective overwhelm the subject.
Although, as akikana says, the bowl pins the table down, I'm not held by the resulting photo, such that I start noticing things like the crop of the table on the right edge. Not that that is a great sin, but more that if that's what I'm seeing then I'm not involved in the photo proper.
The room has a dark, almost sinister atmosphere, as if deserted rather suddenly through some disaster -- I would not wish to be there late at night. Maybe that is why I seem to be so interested in the windows (a means of escape?), with the bowl a very large distraction. Agree, that the distortion is quite unsettling.
Not sure it would fare as well on its own, but I think that this image is a good addition in the context of the series.
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because another photographer had got there before you and moved it from under the table!
That bench cuts off the bottom left corner and then the lightness of the table islolates it further from the rest of the image. So the bowl is the centre of attention on the centre of attention. (?)
Although, as akikana says, the bowl pins the table down, I'm not held by the resulting photo, such that I start noticing things like the crop of the table on the right edge. Not that that is a great sin, but more that if that's what I'm seeing then I'm not involved in the photo proper.
Not sure it would fare as well on its own, but I think that this image is a good addition in the context of the series.