Wednesday, January 23, 2008
urban space 2
Some sort of space force led to most people uploading last Thursday. So I thought that I would lead by a day!
Permalink / posted by and copyright of John Ellis : 7:39 AM
Comments:
The geometry of this is great. The pillars appear to hold up the photo, giving it a sort of looming quality.
Why does that always happen to bikes? Who needs all those seats and front forks?
This is obviously an Anthony Caro in its urban environment. :-)
These stagnant uban backwaters are intimidating, ugly but interesting.
Where to start? For a 'bleak' shot this has plenty of interest and character. It also oozes with geometry and has a bicycle! It also has a rather interesting slope to the bottom left. Like I said, where to start: there is so much to take in with such a sparse collection of elements. Well seen.
Matt - it would appear the the answer to your question is that Anthony Caro has a gang secretly supplying him with parts for his work!
Thanks for comments.
I see the geometry mentioned, and I can certainly appreciate the interesting elements here, but this is the kind of image I struggle with. Perhaps it is in part because I'd likely not think to take one like it -- the subject matter is unappealing to me.
Christina - everyone to their own! Increasingly, I shoot places/objects that are off the beaten track, so to speak. Very much on the basis that everything should be documented: the good, the bad and the ugly. The title here is about those spaces in cities that exist without any thought of integration into the whole.
John -- Stills continually expands my horizons so far as photography goes, and I greatly admire all the photography (and photographers) here, no matter the subject. I have started photographing things I never would have before, including some "urban spaces". These photos just don't come very easily to me, -- commenting on them doesn't either! I seem to be stuck on a certain aesthetic level.
I find it rather funny how I think nothing of lying in muck and bird guano for a couple of hours to get a "well composed" and "pretty" photo of a shorebird, but have difficulties with the urban landscape that is more easily accessible to me.
Wpon opening,I thought that here was another Akikana image. The lines and weighting are wonderful and the sad bike is just about right located in the image to hold my eye and keep me coming back. The tonalities hold this together as well.
Post a Comment
Why does that always happen to bikes? Who needs all those seats and front forks?
These stagnant uban backwaters are intimidating, ugly but interesting.
Thanks for comments.
I find it rather funny how I think nothing of lying in muck and bird guano for a couple of hours to get a "well composed" and "pretty" photo of a shorebird, but have difficulties with the urban landscape that is more easily accessible to me.