Just curious – if you think an LF image has intellectual or emotional “depth,” what made you think so? (I’ll trust that the general meaning of this term is useful enough for conversation here, since we’re not overly-precise, jargon-bedeviled art critics.)
Either well-known “masterpieces,” or prints by you or others.
Does your awareness of depth happen immediately, the moment you see an image for the first time – or does it happen only after an interior (critical) struggle, maybe hours, days or years later? Can you simply describe, as an educated layperson, what this depth is, and when it’s necessary?
Is it mainly a response to literal, describable things – light, line, color, tone, mass, spacing, texture, etc. – or something more mysterious, instinctual, and resistant to language?
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On a related note, just how objective is anyone’s sense of photographic depth?
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