Yay, this place is getting to be fun again.
Don
Gregory Fraser wrote:
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Bob Talbot (whomever he may be)
Greg Fraser - Plant
Greg, the self-styled "Assistant Lord of Darkness", presents us yet
again with a dilemma. Is this the antithesis of photographic
technique, a parody of all the paradigmatic conventions of classical
photographic technique or is it art?
Even the swirl of the left-hand leaf-edge forms a question mark.
Greg's trademark "square but not quite square" format image challenges
the senses of one accustomed to order. The picture contains leaves,
but it's not about foliage. Patterns are everywhere, they are
integral to the very substance of nature, but the patterns in this
image are not without discord. Greg allows extraneous detritus to
remain at the heart of the image, To the untrained eye this appears
to be simply out of focus. But knowing Greg's corpus it clearly would
not have escaped his notice. It's a defiant statement against
pictorialist obsessionism. It's a masterpiece.
Yeah. You got it.
Greg Fraser
Past Master of Funk
http://home.golden.net/~fraserg
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
urge to rule. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
