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  1. Re: Define your understanding of "Pictorial Photography"

    Pictorialism
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    Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process. It reached...
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    Re: Social Commentary

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    Re: Social Commentary

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    Re: A thousand monkey's -who needs Eggleston

    Photography has been described as a practice of selection. What to put in the frame and what not to put in the frame. It seems to me that with Fritz, image capture is more or less random and that...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club #2: Bullock v. Adams

    Fair enough, I was trying to spur discussion with this mock battle concept which I must confess is a concept that I did not originate. (here is one about legs ) I suppose I should be more literal...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club #2: Bullock v. Adams

    The point is not a "contest". Clearly there is no "winner". The point is to spark discussion about photography. Here my intent was to examine hyperbole as a photographic device using these two...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club #2: Bullock v. Adams

    Neither of these photographs are mine, so I am not sure how you interpret this as me wanting to compete. They are both dead so I am not clear on how it would matter to them. And I am not suggesting...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club: Wall v. Crewdson

    The film plain definitely seems tilted forward, but you also have to consider that this is an entire constructed set for the only purpose of making this photograph. Operating the camera was probably...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club #2: Bullock v. Adams

    Frank says they are apples and oranges and Merg says they are the same, nothing to compare. Hummm, interesting.... I probably have more in common with Franks point of view. Their esthetics are...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club #2: Bullock v. Adams

    Adams and WTF are tied! How sad.
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    Poll: Photo Fight Club #2: Bullock v. Adams

    Hyperbole Super Bowl: Wynn Bullock versus Ansel Adams

    ... and the winner is ... you decide

    http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/dynamic/images/detail/Wynn_Bullock_Stark_Tree_1456_67.jpg
    Wynn...
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club: Wall v. Crewdson

    I vote Wall.....

    Wall's work has this unresolved tension that hangs with me after viewing. Knowing that these are staged versus found stituations, there seem to be many odd choices made and I...
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    Re: post your trees!

    Here is a series I have been working on. There are quite a few trees included.

    Domesticated
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club: Wall v. Crewdson

    Thanks for your enlightening contribution. Why did you even bother? WTF, indeed.
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    Poll: Re: Photo Fight Club: Wall v. Crewdson

    I've seen this kind of "contest" on some popular photo blogs. I thought I would see if it would spark some interesting conversation here. Fingers crossed....
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    Poll: Photo Fight Club: Wall v. Crewdson

    Theatrical Tableaux, Jeff Wall versus Gregory Crewdson

    And the winner is......(you decide:)

    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/image/work/insomnia.jpg
    Jeff Wall, Insomnia
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  17. Re: Strip malls and power lines: I just don't get this stuff

    Thank you George, you made my day.
  18. Re: What is to be understood by the expression ‘Photographic Modernism’ ?

    The public radio show "Philosophy Talk" had a show that covered Postmoderism. As you might expect, they defined and discussed Moderism in relation. There is no mention of photography but is...
  19. Re: Your Favorite Photography Book (non-educational)

    Difficult choice, but if I survey all my books and had to only choose one, it would be American Prospects, Joel Sternfeld. Steild knows how to make a book. Soth's Niagra was close second, also...
  20. Re: What is to be understood by the expression ‘Photographic Modernism’ ?

    I would recommend a book entitled "Crisis of the Real" by Andy Grundburg. Andy is a former photography critic for the New York Times. The book discusses photographic modernism at great length, but...
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    Re: How about some fog?

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    Re: post your trees!

    Domesticated

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    Re: post your trees!

    :)

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    Re: post your trees!

    25 minutes.

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    Re: Symbolism in photographic images?

    Dominic Rouse came to mind. Although his work is probably more related to painting than "traditional" photography. His does use a large format camera and the darkroom.
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    I was considering traditional versus non-traditional in the context of this forum, which in my experience, the usual images posted here are of the idealized, natural, modernist, reductionist,...
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    I image with the big red arrow is not a finished image. It has a multitude of technical issues that would need taking care of. It was simply for illustration purposes.
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    I idea that using a LF camera is the only way one can have standards is ridiculous. I have and I use a 4x5. The tool I choose does not change my approach to image making. If I had been using my...
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    Re: BBC series - the genius of photography

    Joanna is right.

    This series is available to download from multiple very public places and based on this I made the assumption that the content was unencumbered. I should not have assumed this,...
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    Pray tell, which "standard" am I corrupting by posting these images?
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    I agree, but using similar arguments all proposed non-traditional photography could be rooted in some tradition. No man is an island....


    Considering the context of this forum, what/who's...
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    Re: BBC series - the genius of photography

    Since the BBC is a government run monopoly, it does release many of its shows as freely distributable downloads. The Brits pay a specific tax to cover the BBC thus their content is treaded more...
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    BBC series - the genius of photography

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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    The primary differentiating characteristic of "large format" is its unique descriptive capabilities. It's ability to capture/describe a subject with the utmost detail. All other characteristics are...
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    dog·ma - a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds

    traditional or non-traditional?

    1DsII, 50mm, 2x3 stitch, 7040x7277
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    blas·phe·my - impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.

    "God or sacred things", hummmmm
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    Another "non-traditional" and perhaps controversial stitched photograph....


    1DsII, 45mm, 2x3 stitch, 7172x6624

    http://alan-george.com/tmp/XI9Q0734-39.jpg
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    Exactly.[/QUOTE]

    Again, you can ping QT on it, but it's my understanding that stitching is allowed.

    Another color "non-traditional" photograph....

    1DsII, 45mm, 2x4 stitch, 9640x8811
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    I agree with Jan and Jim.

    so what if you can stitch a gazzillion mega mixels -- it still isn't large format. It is just a big electronic file.[/QUOTE]

    You can ping QT on it, but as I understand...
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    Re: Non traditional photographs

    Jim,

    The title of the thread is "Non traditional photographs", given the context of this forum and the images that are typically posted, I consider those two images non-traditional. If you see...
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