----- Original Message ----- From: "howard" : I recently went to an exhibition of photographs by a group of very : disadvantaged* youngsters in London. They knew nothing of Ansel Adams, : Charlie Wait, Heather Angel, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag or any other : photographer or critic. : I was stunned, as was my friend, because their ideas owed nothing to : anyone who had gone before, but were so fresh and exciting - and : different in their expressiveness. : : Sadly I cannot find any web reference to their images. maybe here? http://www.fotokids.org/en/gallery/?locat=Gallery&PHPSESSID=5da78a11028124a 8bdeb23eaeba59de8 (watch the wrap) "Two of the older students were able to go to London to participate in the exhibit's opening and to do two-week internships in graphic-design at Giraffe and Reuters News Agency" other galleries of images made by kids: http://www.geocities.com/kidswithcameras/ http://www.theworldthroughmyeyes.org/english/swcc.html http://www.dejolie.com/Frame%20Pages/My_World_Gallery.htm and something else that caught my eye on a page somewhere: "Why Eyes in Some Paintings Seem to Follow Viewers -- Source: Newswise, September 20, 2004. "You've seen it in horror movies, or even in real-life at the local museum: a painting in which the eyes of the person portrayed seem to follow you around the room, no matter where you go. People have described the effect as creepy or eerie, and some have thought it supernatural. But now researchers have demonstrated the very natural cause for this visual effect - All it takes for the effect to work is to have the person in the painting, or photograph, look straight ahead, said James Todd, co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. Our visual perception takes care of the rest." k
