Can someone explain this to me?

No, but I think you'd need to be comfortable with the BS-ometer having it's needle swung a long way towards 100%

I doubt that helps...

...Mike
 
Translated into English: work which is praising individual and impractical qualities, that have nothing to do with global market and economies of scale, i.e. things which you do, when you think you are fancy, but actually you are acting stupid.
 
tunalegs said:
I think it's pretty straight forward, they're just looking for work with romantic imagery. The sort of images you might think of while listening to Beethoven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
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Yes, I don't think you need to be put off by the overwrought description of the exhibition put forth by the art gallery ("crossover between histories and geographies":confused:). Romanticism is a well understood and popular artistic movement, so you will find plenty of information on the interwebs and probably the old English anthology from your school days, if you have it lying around.
 
squareshooter said:
I dummo, is age discrimination legal up there? I wouldn't touch it for anything. What's next -- only white people need apply? No wimmin?
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I would imagine they need people who are older than 18 because of the prize involved. The 18-35 recommendation is just a recommendation. ;)
 
In photography the movement is known as "Pictorialism" as exemplified by the Clarence H. White School. It began in the late 19th Century popularity ended around 1914 but lingered on to the early 1920's. I can't say if the call for submissions is real but it you look at images from that era you will get an idea of what type of photographs they are requesting for submission.
 
Steve Bellayr said:
In photography the movement is known as "Pictorialism" as exemplified by the Clarence H. White School. It began in the late 19th Century popularity ended around 1914 but lingered on to the early 1920's. I can't say if the call for submissions is real but it you look at images from that era you will get an idea of what type of photographs they are requesting for submission.
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I don't think they're looking for pictorialism. They're looking for work with romantic themes in a modern world, not works which are necessarily throwbacks to that specific era visually.

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Remarkably, the political disruption and technological race occupying the world's attention in our current state has disguised the resurfacing of another artistic movement – one that is so philosophically and intellectually subtle, it might go unnoticed. Romanticism in the 21st century has emerged not only in reaction to the technological revolution, but further, due to a need for wonder in the stark light of today's political realities.[/FONT]
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Do a Google image search for Romanticism, or read that section in a book written for a college art-history survey course and report back.
 
Thanks for the lol. I realized just now I should have added a smiley...sorry about that.

Of course the verbiage in the for submissions could not be described as succinct and some might even call it pretentious. Each specialty (including physics) has it's own writing stlye peculiarities that seems odd to outsiders. I know because I wrote chemistry/biochemistry research papers in a prior life and am guilty of this very thing.
 
I'm not submitting anything until I find out what the prize is. Oh; I guess I'm too old anyway. If I scan my film and submit the photo would that be acceptable ? Or does it have to be digital. I'm not going to bother.

Mike
 
The thing that put me off was the offer of a prize for one winning photograph. That's when I stopped reading. I'm sure if I had continued reading I would have found you lose all rights to any photo you send in.
 
http://xkcd.com/451/

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"Only digital submissions" means they only want to receive digital files, not that all images (photography is only one part of the thing) need to be made digitally. They don't want people sending physical objects basically.

It's kind of funny that people would knock something before they've even read enough to get to the actually amusing part.
 
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