Forgotten

[chuckn]

Forgotten in Salt Lake City.

Chuck

[Rob C]

Don't know how I missed this one - damned nice picture and also like the 'colour' a lot; it seems to suit this specific image very well indeed.

I think it also demonstrates the importance of a clean, white surround.

Rob C

[pegelli]

Nice picture and toning.
Only I keep wondering how it would have looked with the whole shadow in the frame on the left.

[graeme]

Don't know how I missed this one - damned nice picture and also like the 'colour' a lot; it seems to suit this specific image very well indeed.

I think it also demonstrates the importance of a clean, white surround.

Rob C

Well said Rob.

Well done Chuck.

[petermfiore]

Speaks to the world of Giorgio de Chirico...

Peter

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

A good one, as others have said.

[Rob C]

Speaks to the world of Giorgio de Chirico...

Peter

Thanks, new one to me, philistine that I be!

https://www.google.es/search?q=giorgio+de+chirico+imagenes&rlz=1C2PRFE_enES586ES586&biw=1260&bih=866&tbm=isch&imgil=uAHIo_7R5QFqcM%253A%253B-UWRdbbv_18ggM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fsurrealismosa.wordpress.com%25252F2012%25252F05%25252F09%25252Fgiorgio-de-chirico-y-la-pintura-metafisica%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=uAHIo_7R5QFqcM%253A%252C-UWRdbbv_18ggM%252C_&usg=__7--c1xs_tzus5bsyXtbeo5IUYX0%3D&ved=0CEIQyjdqFQoTCL7LnaiFuMgCFYQIGgodAQ4PZQ&ei=2xYZVv7xIISRaIGcvKgG#imgrc=uAHIo_7R5QFqcM%3A&usg=__7--c1xs_tzus5bsyXtbeo5IUYX0%3D

Very apt remark that you made, Peter.

Rob

[petermfiore]

Thanks, new one to me, philistine that I be!

https://www.google.es/search?q=giorgio+de+chirico+imagenes&rlz=1C2PRFE_enES586ES586&biw=1260&bih=866&tbm=isch&imgil=uAHIo_7R5QFqcM%253A%253B-UWRdbbv_18ggM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fsurrealismosa.wordpress.com%25252F2012%25252F05%25252F09%25252Fgiorgio-de-chirico-y-la-pintura-metafisica%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=uAHIo_7R5QFqcM%253A%252C-UWRdbbv_18ggM%252C_&usg=__7--c1xs_tzus5bsyXtbeo5IUYX0%3D&ved=0CEIQyjdqFQoTCL7LnaiFuMgCFYQIGgodAQ4PZQ&ei=2xYZVv7xIISRaIGcvKgG#imgrc=uAHIo_7R5QFqcM%3A&usg=__7--c1xs_tzus5bsyXtbeo5IUYX0%3D

Very apt remark that you made, Peter.

Rob

Painting has been and is a very powerful visual medium. With very deep visual reaches from all of it's past, to everyone's visual  today...

Peter

[Dominique_R]

The white border is much too thick and distract the viewer from the picture. The black and white is very nice and powerful and the composition is excellent. However, as a whole, this photo doesn't speak to me. It's not clear what the main subject is (the plank? the first building? those at the back? all of the above?), and whatever it is, it triggers no emotion in me, beyond a sense of satisfaction at looking at a nicely composed and post-processed image.

[petermfiore]

The white border is much too thick and distract the viewer from the picture. The black and white is very nice and powerful and the composition is excellent. However, as a whole, this photo doesn't speak to me. It's not clear what the main subject is (the plank? the first building? those at the back? all of the above?), and whatever it is, it triggers no emotion in me, beyond a sense of satisfaction at looking at a nicely composed and post-processed image.

Perhaps the subject is the space between...

Peter

[Bruce Cox]

I would say it is generally about loss.  Specifically about loss of continuity.

All the spaces are firmly related but isolated.  The shadow dramatizes the perspective but isolates the near from the far and from the middle ground.  The sections [3, 6, or 7?] are so sharp and vivid as to be compositions on their own.

It's very full but empty.

Yes, Giorgio de Chirico.

[Tony Jay]

Not a pretty image but boy does it evoke all sorts of recollections and emotions.
From that solitary shadow of the post to the featureless shadow thrown by the wall and those unbelievably ugly buildings in the background.
Someone mentioned how that shadow separates the foreground from the background as an issue but to me this image is the antithesis of cohesiveness and unity and so to me it works. That solitary shadow in the foreground also the same - it is truly alone and isolated. Nothing in this image is meant to be reassuring or familiar.
Recollections for me were of those grainy black&white scenes of nazi concentration camps.
Emotionally this image just encapsulates despair and misery and isolation.

Brilliantly conceived.

Tony Jay

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Tony is right on the money.

[chuckn]

Thanks for the comments and impressions everyone. This photograph is one in a series of photos that I took to hang along side a painting that my late father in law did back in 1965. The paining is of a demolition site where the Dooly Building once stood. This building was designed by the american architect Lewis Sulivan (1856-1924), and was the only one of its kind in Salt Lake City. My father in law, an architect also, worked very hard to save this unique building from be torn down. The series of photographs all depict scenes of either demolition of old buildings or vacant lots where they once stood. I wanted to capture the feeling of lose, sadness and despair. From the comments that you all have made I think I achieved my goal.

Chuck