>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert G. Earnest [mailto:robert@earnestphoto.com] >> >> "Alan P. Hayes" wrote: >> > >> > Homage to Bill Eggleston: >> > >> > <http://www.meaningandform.com/photography/images/Memphis.jpg> >> > >> this is an interesting "Homage to Bill" >> I gather that your understanding of Egglestons work is that >> it is about >> what color the world is. >> "Oh, Look!!! Isn't the contrast of the yellow house and the blue paint >> on the street interesting and significant?" > >I don't really notice the house much and I don't see a real contrast between >the wide blue stripe and the yellow house. I do very much notice the >contrast between the blue and orange/yellow stripes on the street and the >subject to me is the intersection of the streets and that patch of grass >bottom right that bothers me (surely the photographer intended it to be >there but why?). The house appears almost neutral in color and more obscured >than not by foliage. > The house is a bit more of an element in the print I've made of this. It seems to have been de-emphasized by the reduction in size and on my screen it's a little duller than in the print. It's not about the house so much, though to the extent that this picture does have emotional content a lot of it is in the house and the fact that it is subdued and somewhat hidden, I suppose. I definitely intended that patch of grass to be there (not that I couldn't have just missed it, but not this time!) I cropped to minimize it but I was real glad I didn't lose it all together. It bothers me too... >The 'point' of most art eludes me though and no doubt the significance of >the house does also. I suppose my conciousness just transcends the >significance of the physical plane. Yeah, sure... What was that last sentence supposed to mean? Actually you keep saying that about missing the point of art, but your comments impress me as generally very observant and insightful and to the point. The Canadian Bumpkin School of Photographic Criticism... A. > >Greg Fraser -- Alan P. Hayes Meaning and Form: Writing, Editing and Document Design Pittsfield, Massachusetts
