[First, a bold pitch for my giant new Want to Trade ad! There’s something for nearly everyone. It’s a revolutionary if not anarchic attempt to spread good gear as I look to acquire fewer finer jewels of photography for myself. Come on by!]
Thank you Robert, James (note: your RHL pick was inspired by your series, which LC Smith praises in detail) and Greg.
Here are some of my admirations for the week.
Lynn/Lynnb
Because Lynn is the master of spare human patterns of distance and removal at the edge of his world.
Mike/Mlehrman
My comment there: “Great split view, Mike. One nearer, one farther; one in a windowed vista, the other in claustrophobe-land; one in profile, one suspiciously facing forward. You’re operating like some of my favorite painters.”
James/jscooter
Really, it’s the series, for conceptual clarity and concision. My comment on this one: “Looking more closely, I deeply appreciate the series — twosomes and threesomes at a remove from us, whether they are huddled, or at a remove from one another, or even sentient by ordinary standards. The compositional empathy makes the chairs and water-grasses poignant enactors of distance and longing, as much as the umbrella trio fenced off from the swans in their infinite waters.”
Bushwick1234
Winner of the whimsical interspecies snap. And it’s nice to see Kaniel’s beautiful daughter modeling a fledgling.
Siracusa
I’m very glad to see David’s work again, and might have picked one of his poignant seaside processionals of salt-killed evergreens, but this haunted interior is my choice. I commented “we have rustic ordinary welcoming comfort without the swallow, but its wraith is a sign of the ancient continuity that if we are lucky includes us.”
Stefan Jozef
Always judicious and subtle and wry in his vision, framing, and grasp of human quirks. The jauntiness and jollity of these two men make a droll contrast with their evangelist signage. I hope they’re churchgoers, too, and not just hired signwavers—I’d like to hear what and especially how they believe.
Bushwick1234
Kaniel gets two, this one doesn’t skate by on whimsy and a lovely model, but presents the essential urban human conundrum of mismatched puzzle pieces jammed together for a moment only a photographer records.
Ciao, Robert
