Re: museum collections?

[Kim Mosley <mrkimmosley@xxxxxxxxx>]

For me, there is an element of dada in this picture. In the same way that Marcel Duchamp put a urinal on a pedestal, we see a rather ordinary snapshot enlarged to human proportions. It opens our eyes, showing us how to see something commonplace in a very new way. Some of the commenters from the list seem to want to judge the work rather than experience it. This is a trap. The photographer is asking us to open our eyes and look at something that we might have discarded. Look at humans in this both comic and tragic theatrical setting. What do we see? How is this work more powerful and more universal than that done by a "professional" wedding photographer?

Kim 

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:38 PM, David Schenken <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An interesting series of comments about museums and art and how it got
there.
Nobody seems to be talking about what they see in looking at the photo -
some technical stuff but not what they SEE.

I see a set of four people, three of which are interacting in a really
strange manner.
These folks are identified as 'bridesmaids' so we assume (???) that they are
friends or at least friendly.
Not in this picture.  The lady to the far right is really angry / disgusted
at the lady on the left.
Miss center can't yet make up her mind about what just happened and it must
really have been recent to get that difference in expressions.  Perhaps they
have just noticed that Miss left is three months pregnant and that might be
inappropriate for this wedding gathering.  Perhaps it is the identity of the
father that's the problem.

We have a mystery here waiting for a story to be told.

And then there's that really mysterious lady in the background.  Not in the
same kind of dress - so not a bridesmaid.
Perhaps she's the matron / maid of honor and has been left out of the
'festivities'.

This whole drama is being played out in the woods - not the usual venue for
wedding.

Anyway, that's what I see looking at the image.  I'm sure more would come
out looking at the real image in the large so that more detail would be
apparent.

Cheers,
James

Original Message ----- From: "Lea Murphy" <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:22 AM
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> This is a link to one of the images I was really wondering about. How this
ended up on a museum wall I'd love to know.
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> http://collections.kemperart.org/Obj651$6
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