You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn
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I am impressed by the lyricism he gets out of his Zone 10 highlights.
I like the frames.
I think it's an incredibly successful attempt to eff the ineffable.
Ok, maybe not the ineffable. But it's successfully effing something or other. Or maybe it's effing a certain group of people.
But it's successful, isn't it?
No question, this man is a master who marches to the tune of a different drummer while breaking all the moulds that shape the current, future, and past - while the rest of us stare helplessly through an impenetrable glass wall which separates the ordinary from the sublime, the mundane from the immortal, like a chasm over which none can traverse, ineffably vast while at the same time remarkably intimate - like some kind of needle whose eye thorough which no thread can be drawn - like an answer in search of a riddle, like... whatever.
Negatives waaaaaayyyyy too thick? Bellows leak? Light meter off by about 14 stops? Just a few guesses; I'm not experienced enough to try to tackle this one confidently. :-)
In his earlier work, it looks like he needed to invest in a level for his camera(s)
DG
All I can say is, "WTF is he smoking?"
I like his style and the way he describes his images. I have a show coming up; maybe he can help me write the wall statement.
Knowing Mr. Feinman's expertise in Photoshop, I can see evidence of unsharp masking, Gaussian blurs, and myriad other manipulations.
These are definitely inkjet prints.
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