Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Curtains
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A conceptual photograph of patterns, abstract but yet able to see the fabric of the cloth. A study in grays. Makes me want to see the "color" version.
Akikana is possibly right - but we'll never know about the lack of ripple. Doug is right too although I'm not so driven to see the colours. I can see this working in a gallery or as a big poster in a woollen exhibition but it is not something that I would want on a desert island!
I'm looking for the join - is it a curtain or more than one?
What a thought provoking photograph.
I'll pick just one element...there is a softness running down the centre, which I presume is a focus issue with the fold in the fabric bringing that part of the curtain out of the zone of focus. This softness irritates me. Why should that be so? Is it really that important? Etc Etc.
Being so central it is as if the softness is the subject.
As I say. Thought provoking.
I tried to bring out the characters of those folds a bit but maybe not enough.
Colour version may of made you puke/spew/ralph (depends on where you come from), 70's green. Colour took away the darkening in the folds.
This is not a photo I would have taken. ;-)
My first thoughts (provoked?) are along the lines of "why?", but I think I'll give it a bit more time and come back to see if I find more to interest me.
Seeing this a number of times, I find it interesting that it causes new reactions each time; so I can see what Colin is on about although I think my reactions are more utilitarian. Fabrics are such an elemental part of our existence that if, for example, one thinks of this as a flag, certain preconceptions are over-turned.
I'm reminded of a Chuck Close painting, something between his photo-realistic B&Ws and his later, mosaic like portraits. I'd print it big and hang it on the wall.
I think I prefer this in the B&W, especially after Robert's description of the color. I more or less fall into that soft spot, but the texture is very appealing.
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I'm looking for the join - is it a curtain or more than one?
I'll pick just one element...there is a softness running down the centre, which I presume is a focus issue with the fold in the fabric bringing that part of the curtain out of the zone of focus. This softness irritates me. Why should that be so? Is it really that important? Etc Etc.
Being so central it is as if the softness is the subject.
As I say. Thought provoking.
Colour version may of made you puke/spew/ralph (depends on where you come from), 70's green. Colour took away the darkening in the folds.
My first thoughts (provoked?) are along the lines of "why?", but I think I'll give it a bit more time and come back to see if I find more to interest me.