Maybe I am feeling especially "liverish" this morning but I feel bad for Rachel Talibart and feel she deserves an apology.
How is it that what started out as a serious, respectful and focussed discussion of some clearly wonderful photographic work - and was generally acknowledged as such by the initial comments - has now degenerated into a saloon-bar/undergrad common room brawl about esoteric approaches to communication which would be better suited to the Coffee Corner area ? I am obviously wrong in my assumption that this recent trend had a lot to do with the previous administration of the site - although I am sure that Michael would have discouraged it swiftly, courteously but quietly effectively.
Rachael Talibert's work is excellent and one very valid approach to photography - there are many others - and it deserves discussion and recognition as such without all of this distraction.
Disputation on whatever for its own sake is great entertainment for old men - I know as I am one of them - but in the right place please, if only out of respect for worthwhile feature contributors who might otherwise be discouraged from contributing.
Actually, I don't think people have been taking issue with the
photography. If anything, I think she gets a good vote of well done! The video with music was wonderful; perhaps it's all a matter of presentation, that's a problem a lot wider across the 'net than just what goes down here in
humble cosy LuLa.
As most know, one of my favourite photographic artists is the redoubtable Sarah Moon; her work is visible in various modes, but I feel that there is a couple of them where stills are accompanied by music which, perhaps not entirely to my taste, is at least non-invasive and, should you like the musical idiom itself, an even better way of looking at her work. At worst, you can kill the sound. In almost all cases, I think the written word is simply too distracting for the basic reason that you have to remove your eye from the image in order to get the drift of the opinion being flaunted. In other words, the mechanics are flawed.
If one is willing to hang one's washing out on the line in the village green, then one has to be prepared to live with all the consequences of that act. Hell, some people just hate pink! Or blue.
Rob