LF Purity

[Heroique]

Please, let me post The Pieta.

Very nice example, and to develop the point, one might compare this youthful work to his very different visualization of these same two people, in his Rondanini Pieta (below), from the last years of his life.

The two works are much like my separate LF visualizations of an eternal red oak I've been watching and shooting for decades, struggling to capture the purity I feel in each case, trying to express it differently each time, but always coming-up a bit short of the aspiration. They're impure.

Yet when I hear "purity," my first reaction remains water for darkroom chemicals and the mountain air before our seasonal fires arrive. Must be the materialist side of me.

[Pere Casals]

I wonder whether the word can even accurately be applied to image-making. Are there a lot of impure images out there with which we can contrast a pure one?

Doremus, IMHO this word can be used to express a lot of different things.

To me, applied to image-making, it's about the way we approach to the subject, and about the connection between photographer and subject. Recently I watched this interview to Paula Chamlee :

In this sense, "purity" is not at all about the tools we use, but I don't no why... to me it looks that crafting images with the optic workflow help approaching the subject in that way, of course this is a completely personal opinion, and I've complete respect for those doing that with an smartphone, for example.

[Peter Collins]

Bernice's "Myopic Orthodoxy," +1^^2! (Yes!)

[Cor]

First thing which poped up in my mind, guess some images were shot on LF....

https://tinyurl.com/yy3zrqgu

Oh well..

Best,

Cor

[jnantz]

What a weird thread.

[Vaughn]

What a weird thread.

Weird questions lead to weird threads.

[BrianShaw]

Weird questions lead to weird threads.

But the wouldn’t be quite as weird if we didn’t participate!

[Vaughn]

But the wouldn’t be quite as weird if we didn’t participate!

Weird is good and entertaining, aint it?! Always amazes me (but really shouldn't) to read complaints about how silly or unneccesary a thread is by people participating in the same thread -- people do not have to participate!

[Bernice Loui]

Define Weird?

Bernice

[Vaughn]

Define Weird? Bernice

Strange, uncanny, would be the ones I'd use.