"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." - Robert Frank
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." - Elliott Erwitt
"It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph" - Robert Frank
"Being shy is quite useful to a photographer, because it gives you the opportunity of not being shy once you have the field of a camera before you. It protects you from being shy." - Elliott Erwitt
"I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home." - Elliott Erwitt
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. - Robert Frank
I think my two personal favorites of your essay are the close up of the chair and of the tunnel. The chair because it creates an isolating feel with the chair being the main object in the photo. I particularly like how it's off center and how the shadow is so long as to distort the chair's reflection and make it seem sort of fantastic. I like the tunnel photograph because I like the contrast of the dark and the light and how the dark leads your eye to the light at the exit.
ReplyDeleteI love diptychs! You have a great idea going here, with the far away shot and the close up. Your two first images are your strongest. The road one is weaker because it doesn't follow the same pattern as the others. Same with the last one: the close up is on top instead of on the bottom. I recommend keeping a constant pattern throughout. Your framing on the house shot is impeccable. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very fun essay and the diptychs are awesome! I really like the house and the chair. I like the house because it is plain and simple, but the close up is even better because it adds a human element without adding people, there is a bowl on the chair that comes into view and the hose is more in focus and this looks like a place where people are. I really like the natural light that highlights the mountain and the road in the third photos. I agree with Sarah in that the first two are the strongest because they have the best flow.
ReplyDeleteThe way you paired the images really emphasized what you were trying to have the viewer do, like you said in your first line quoted by Robert Frank. I like that the real connection throughout all the images is the close up and far away shots of the subjects. I also like that it is the method of thinking and looking at the images that connects all of them. I don't know what to say, I loved this project the roads and lines that are in all of them!
ReplyDeleteJe pense que cet essai capte bien l’idée de la citation de Robert Frank au début de l’essai, parce qu’il faut prendre du temps pour réfléchir à ce qu’on voit. Aussi, comme Robert Frank, l’ordre des photos semble être un aspect important de l’essai, avec un contraste entre les photos au début avec personne, et les photos à la fin avec les gens qui vont faire du ski, surtout la petite fille.
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