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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: PhillyPhotographer on June 14, 2008, 05:25:50 pm

Title: Tune - In
Post by: PhillyPhotographer on June 14, 2008, 05:25:50 pm
I've been working on this typology for a couple of years. I have three done and are working on number four as well as one of old satellite dishes. They are 40" x 40" float mounted and framed 46" x 46". The paper is Crane Museo Silver rag.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3268/2297988757_aa0e826f4c.jpg)


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2300519878_8f573d8a59.jpg)


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2122/2377835627_c1485075a4.jpg)


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2568615988_55ed1d4c74_o.jpg)
Title: Tune - In
Post by: sergio on June 14, 2008, 08:08:17 pm
Very nice.
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Post by: Colorwave on June 15, 2008, 12:47:38 am
I love it.  Well conceived and executed.  How much post work was required to dial in the skies to get them so similar in value?  
-Ron H
Title: Tune - In
Post by: PhillyPhotographer on June 15, 2008, 01:25:20 am
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I love it.  Well conceived and executed.  How much post work was required to dial in the skies to get them so similar in value? 
-Ron H
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Actually not much at all. I only shot on grey days.

Thanks
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Post by: PhillyPhotographer on June 16, 2008, 05:03:40 pm
Someone asked me what printer was used. These are printed on Epson's 11080.
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Post by: popnfresh on July 09, 2008, 06:22:48 pm
It's kind of cool, actually. I dig the concept. Grouped like that, they almost look like some weird alien alphabet.
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Post by: Robert Roaldi on July 09, 2008, 10:14:30 pm
Neat.

In a few years, people might not know what those were.
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Post by: DarkPenguin on July 09, 2008, 10:38:35 pm
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Neat.

In a few years, people might not know what those were.
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They're making a comeback.  HD over the air is better than cable.
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Post by: Rob C on July 11, 2008, 12:12:14 pm
As a concept, possibly for some form of industrial promotion or display decoration, and at that size of print, I see a reason and even a function for the work. But, if this is being presened as "fine art" in the various senses that we have tried to define that idea in this site, then I fail to see it.

That doesn´t for a moment mean it isn´t art - just that I can´t grasp its point beyond the fact that we are presented with a lot of similar images in a neat package.

Rob C
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 11, 2008, 01:28:56 pm
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As a concept, possibly for some form of industrial promotion or display decoration, and at that size of print, I see a reason and even a function for the work. But, if this is being presened as "fine art" in the various senses that we have tried to define that idea in this site, then I fail to see it.

That doesn´t for a moment mean it isn´t art - just that I can´t grasp its point beyond the fact that we are presented with a lot of similar images in a neat package.

Rob C
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Rob,

That's what I might have said, if I hadn't recently seen a fine exhibit called "Landscape/Typology" by the German couple Bernd and Hilla Becher, currently at New York's Musum of Modern Art. The Bechers have apparently been doing "typologies" of this sort for many years, and although I don't remember ever seeing or hearing the word "typology" before, I was blown over by their show. And it made me rethink some of my own preconceived notions about "what is art."

One of the things photography can do well, in my view, is to encourage people to look at the world in new ways, to pay attention to details that they might easily overlook. A "typology" of this sort invites the viewer to compare and contrast similar objects that would otherwise be ignored as "ugly". Studying them can reveal beauty in unexpected places.

The Bechers' books give some inkling of the power of 'typologies', but, like other good photography, the books don't have the same effect as seeing the real prints on a gallery wall.

Regards,

-Eric
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Post by: PhillyPhotographer on July 11, 2008, 01:37:29 pm
I due appreciate everybody's comments.

 I am planning to see the Becher's show next month.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibition...85&ref=calendar (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=8385&ref=calendar)