Michael Markey
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Let's See Your Ricoh GR Photos
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JohnWolf
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Tucson, AZ | GR III
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Sorry. Something is glitchy tonight.
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David_Manning
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I apologize, I haven't posted any images since the forum format change...so I'm struggling with how to get images here. Please be patient with me.
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Ricoh GR IIIx
Dogman
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The walking stick. GRII.
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Graffiti with mud daubers and spiderwebs / GR
DwF
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As one who enjoys working with graphics, and found objects as a vehicle for my own tonal or textural exploration, I also consider any sort of symbology that might be present, and that may have surfaced for me even prior to my framing the image. If I recognize it, the aspect of symbolism certainly imbues the photograph with a statement that might be parable to the dance of light, and textural aspect of the image. It will hopefully add dimension to the image.
Given the offensive and inflammatory nature of the symbol you've chosen to celebrate with this image....about spiderwebs and mud daubers (and certainly your right to free expression) perhaps you could to expand on your title Graffiti with Mud daubers and spiderwebs. To quote Tom Waits, "what is he doing in there?"
David
Given the offensive and inflammatory nature of the symbol you've chosen to celebrate with this image....about spiderwebs and mud daubers (and certainly your right to free expression) perhaps you could to expand on your title Graffiti with Mud daubers and spiderwebs. To quote Tom Waits, "what is he doing in there?"
David
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David, your choice of the verb “celebrate” is polemical and provocative, yet has nothing to do with me, with my reasons for making this photograph—it was visually striking, first, and second, it contains a paradox or conundrum I’ll address in the third paragraph.
The boy or teenager who presumably painted this swastika beneath a railroad bridge in a small town (There’s the context for you) certainly knew he was violating decency, taste, taboo, etc. It isn’t like painting on the wall at town hall or the floor of a school gym or the window of a Jewish tailor. It’s a vicious experiment; it could be a gang induction test; but it is hidden from plain view, so it was done by a scared kid or by a coward.
The image itself offers another story, namely that whatever humans do for whatever reasons vicious or righteous will survive the attention of other natural processes. In a few years, this swastika will vanish beneath mud dauber cells, unless the spiders that prey on them drive them away. Or eventually a CSX trestle maintenance crew will find it and sandblast it, along with the peace symbol someone else painted a few feet away.
As for me, I’ll photograph anything I think deserves a seeing. I’ve offered an account of the circumstances of this photograph, because I respect you and think your comment deserves an answer, but ultimately the photograph deserves to be considered without the photographer’s rationale, and more importantly, without prejudice or sanctimony.
Most people exist on a diet of self-reinforcing visual cliches. If an image like this gives a shock, that’s a message from one’s own nervous system, not from the image itself. The problem lies with the interpreter, not, in this case, with the photographer.
The boy or teenager who presumably painted this swastika beneath a railroad bridge in a small town (There’s the context for you) certainly knew he was violating decency, taste, taboo, etc. It isn’t like painting on the wall at town hall or the floor of a school gym or the window of a Jewish tailor. It’s a vicious experiment; it could be a gang induction test; but it is hidden from plain view, so it was done by a scared kid or by a coward.
The image itself offers another story, namely that whatever humans do for whatever reasons vicious or righteous will survive the attention of other natural processes. In a few years, this swastika will vanish beneath mud dauber cells, unless the spiders that prey on them drive them away. Or eventually a CSX trestle maintenance crew will find it and sandblast it, along with the peace symbol someone else painted a few feet away.
As for me, I’ll photograph anything I think deserves a seeing. I’ve offered an account of the circumstances of this photograph, because I respect you and think your comment deserves an answer, but ultimately the photograph deserves to be considered without the photographer’s rationale, and more importantly, without prejudice or sanctimony.
Most people exist on a diet of self-reinforcing visual cliches. If an image like this gives a shock, that’s a message from one’s own nervous system, not from the image itself. The problem lies with the interpreter, not, in this case, with the photographer.
DwF
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Words are funny things and as we both know can have power in connotation and suggestion. I tend to use that word not in the sense of birthday celebration but for a specific calling attention to. Like puns are usually intended/intentional, that word has that double entendre aspect that I find appealing...I won't lie 🙂 Yours was the first image I looked at here this morning (west coast) and yes, it pissed me off to start my day with it. So there's feedback for you.
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