She, who has to be obeyed No.1 |
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She, who has to be obeyed No.2 |
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She, who has to be obeyed No.3 |
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Sorry, Chris, but there's just not that much there. They're technically competent pictures of a bird. That's all.
Sorry, Chris, but there's just not that much there. They're technically competent pictures of a bird. That's all.
I'm afraid I have to agree. I'm also not terribly sure how the title is relevant - and, to be pedantic, it's a misquotation: Haggard's Ayesha was She-who-must-be-obeyed.
Jeremy
Sorry, didn't mean to bore you.Nothing even remotely boring there. I was thinking about your images while taking the dog for a walk up the hill (and also taking some probably-to-lots-of-people-boring images of my own). If I had seen yours side by side on the wall of a gallery, printed very large (or very small with a very large frame and matte, an underused device, IMO), and been asked to write something about them in curator-speak to go on a discreet little label on the wall, I would have suggested that you had intentionally given us three very different styles of photograph - the first mock-romantic and moody, high contrast with the bird looking to one side, perhaps embarrassed, against a cloudy sky, the second flat and documentary with the bird as if skinned and pinned to a white ground, captured in the unpitying male gaze of the camera, and the third (my favorite, because the bird now has personality) a kind of joke take on those ornithologist flash shots of a rare bird looking justifiably aggrieved at being captured for someone's twitcher list. If I had been smoking something (else) before writing the label I would have gone on to suggest that "she who must be obeyed" is the muse of postmodernity and not just a bird, and that the subject of your trilogy was an ironic take on photograpy as representation, and not just a bird.
Nothing even remotely boring there. I was thinking about your images while taking the dog for a walk up the hill (and also taking some probably-to-lots-of-people-boring images of my own). If I had seen yours side by side on the wall of a gallery, printed very large (or very small with a very large frame and matte, an underused device, IMO), and been asked to write something about them in curator-speak to go on a discreet little label on the wall, I would have suggested that you had intentionally given us three very different styles of photograph - the first mock-romantic and moody, high contrast with the bird looking to one side, perhaps embarrassed, against a cloudy sky, the second flat and documentary with the bird as if skinned and pinned to a white ground, captured in the unpitying male gaze of the camera, and the third (my favorite, because the bird now has personality) a kind of joke take on those ornithologist flash shots of a rare bird looking justifiably aggrieved at being captured for someone's twitcher list. If I had been smoking something (else) before writing the label I would have gone on to suggest that "she who must be obeyed" is the muse of postmodernity and not just a bird, and that the subject of your trilogy was an ironic take on photograpy as representation, and not just a bird.
Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned any work of art has to stand on its own. Backstories don't change that.
They're technically competent pictures of a bird. That's all.
Chris, the "backstory" matters when you're doing documentary, not when you're trying to produce something more than that. When you do documentary the story is everything. When you do street, the implications are everything. When you do birds, unless you've done something that can stand on its own as a work of art, they're just birds. Here's an example of a bird that doesn't need a "backstory" or any other kind of story. I've posted it before, but it was a long time ago.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you were trying to do with these bird pictures; maybe you just meant them to be a record of a trip into the yard with a camera, but if you were after criticism of them as art, well. . . you just got it.