Chris101
summicronia
(psst, just between us, I think he meant to keep this secret. There are a bunch of us who already use film, and have found it to be quite lucrative. We actually pay people to go on the internet and proclaim that "film is dead" just to keep the competition at bay. Keep this under your hat though, it'll just be our secret!)
Why? because they aren't pretty? I guess Walker Evans isn't either?
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
"Hostile Performance Photography" (HPP)
Here's an example: In Union Square and other NYC hubs are these groups of "Jew For Jesus" that are disrespectful and have very bad boundries.
When you try to step around them during rush hour they step into your way with the purpose to obstruct your passage so that you can't pass without taking one of their pamplets.
Having good manners and saying "excuss me" or "No thank you." never has an appropiate respecfull response.
Meanwhile the surrounding areas are littered with discarded pamlets to the extent that they are hazards to the general public.
"Hostile Performance Photography" involves use of aggressive selection of gear to mirror behavior and invade bondries. I intend to use a Nikon F3 Evil SLR equipt with, MD-4 motordrive, DA-2 Action Finder, AH-4 handstrap, and a 24/2.0 wide angle that can focus down to 12 inches.
Intent is to shoot a roll of Fuji 800 in about seven seconds by getting in so close with a big loud obnoxious camera without committing assault or getting arrested.
This Work of "Hostile Performance Photography" is all about bad boundies, public space and private space in such a manner that it is on the boundies of sculpture.
I'm sure there is great possibility of visually uninteresting images, but this event is more about documenting the invasion of space. BTW Now I have reason to use that expired roll of film laying in my frig all these years. This is one of those rare times I will be shooting color.
I will let you know what happens when an artist decides to go a little psycho. I want to get a shot in as close as possible, without hitting someone. Hopefully it is in focus.
Calzone
Here's an example: In Union Square and other NYC hubs are these groups of "Jew For Jesus" that are disrespectful and have very bad boundries.
When you try to step around them during rush hour they step into your way with the purpose to obstruct your passage so that you can't pass without taking one of their pamplets.
Having good manners and saying "excuss me" or "No thank you." never has an appropiate respecfull response.
Meanwhile the surrounding areas are littered with discarded pamlets to the extent that they are hazards to the general public.
"Hostile Performance Photography" involves use of aggressive selection of gear to mirror behavior and invade bondries. I intend to use a Nikon F3 Evil SLR equipt with, MD-4 motordrive, DA-2 Action Finder, AH-4 handstrap, and a 24/2.0 wide angle that can focus down to 12 inches.
Intent is to shoot a roll of Fuji 800 in about seven seconds by getting in so close with a big loud obnoxious camera without committing assault or getting arrested.
This Work of "Hostile Performance Photography" is all about bad boundies, public space and private space in such a manner that it is on the boundies of sculpture.
I'm sure there is great possibility of visually uninteresting images, but this event is more about documenting the invasion of space. BTW Now I have reason to use that expired roll of film laying in my frig all these years. This is one of those rare times I will be shooting color.
I will let you know what happens when an artist decides to go a little psycho. I want to get a shot in as close as possible, without hitting someone. Hopefully it is in focus.
Calzone
mfogiel
Veteran
Quote:
Originally Posted by mfogiel
The Becher's water reservoirs and all their school of documentary photography in my opinion is not art at all.
Why? because they aren't pretty? I guess Walker Evans isn't either?
Because they do not inspire any aesthetic emotion, and were not even designed to do so. The fact that you reproduce in a mechanical way an object 24 times, or that you blow it up 6x9 meters, does not make it any more artful, than a reproduction of a button in a catalogue. There can be "good", "valuable" or even "great" documentary photography, but it rarely is art. HCB documentary shots were often art, and the best photos of this guy:
http://www.smague.fr/, even if he is not in "The Next Movement", are art allright, while they are also documents. If people want to pay millions for Warhol's Campbell soup, this is their business, but in my subjective judgement, this is not more artful than a supermarket shelf.
Originally Posted by mfogiel
The Becher's water reservoirs and all their school of documentary photography in my opinion is not art at all.
Why? because they aren't pretty? I guess Walker Evans isn't either?
Because they do not inspire any aesthetic emotion, and were not even designed to do so. The fact that you reproduce in a mechanical way an object 24 times, or that you blow it up 6x9 meters, does not make it any more artful, than a reproduction of a button in a catalogue. There can be "good", "valuable" or even "great" documentary photography, but it rarely is art. HCB documentary shots were often art, and the best photos of this guy:
http://www.smague.fr/, even if he is not in "The Next Movement", are art allright, while they are also documents. If people want to pay millions for Warhol's Campbell soup, this is their business, but in my subjective judgement, this is not more artful than a supermarket shelf.