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In a message dated 01/11/2007 11:57:49 GMT Standard Time,
tr_cunningham@xxxxxxxxx writes:
if you have to title the image to get the message to your audience, has the image already failed before presentation? A sunset shot is usually self explanatory but usually the subject has to
have some explanation of context. eg location, historical context, which is
often conveyed by a title and even possibly a footnote (intentional).
Your picture as shown in the gallery would not have told me that the person
whose foot it was, was a cycle rickshaw driver - for all I knew I might
have been looking at part of a trailer, conceivably carrying a corpse.
Not being too well up on the geography of the Middle East I might have
assumed - from the title - that it was either a place name or the personal name
of the rickshaw driver.
Amateur, newbie, or pro.? In the UK the usual understanding of the
word pro is that the person makes his living from the art, sport, or other
activity, so I would challenge the view that a starving artist in an attic whose
pictures do not sell, is a pro. Such a person, might, in the fullness of time
(and probably after having died) might be accorded appreciation, fame, and other
plaudits for being a great artist, a visionary, a man / woman born out of their
time, but none of this would make them a 'pro'.
Michael
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