Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Stars look quite normal really. It is the normalicity that makes them "beautiful". Chris http://www.chrisscrazyideas.co.uk http://www.chrissgallery.co.uk |> -----Original Message----- |> From: owner-photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu |> [mailto:owner-photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu]On Behalf Of luis |> Sent: 15 May 2003 09:09 |> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students |> Subject: Re:Re: looky here, new thread, Gallery Review 2003-5-15 |> |> |> |> Elson Elizaga wrote - |> |> >>>>Occasionally, I make pretty pictures. But in recent years, |> I've come to apply the concept of literary conflict to my |> photography. Conflict implies the presence of opposites. Like |> the positive and negative poles of magnetism and electricity, |> these opposites, when placed nearby, create tension.<<< |> |> Once I saw on TV an interview with the great actress Isabella |> Rosellini. She was asked about her beauty, which was used widely |> to sell cosmetics. A little embarrassed, she said that the |> secret of beauty was imperfection. In her case, it was that |> famous gap in her front teeth (Cindy Crawford's mole, etc). |> |> The mordancy of an imperfection on an otherwise stunning |> face brought in asymmetry, transience, tension, dynamism, |> humanity...all the things that signify life. |> |> --- Luis |> |> |> |> |>
