The Photography Thread

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After these, I'll do something else (i.e., I will edit & upload other photographs - I took all of this batch on Monday last week)

           

                                              

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Interesting project:

     

Michael Somoroff's Absence of Subject is a poignant homage to the legendary photographer August Sander's monumental work People of the 20th Century (Menschen des 20 Jarhunderts). It is a thoughtful and passionate meditation on memory, imagination, human resilience and creativity.

The originality in this body of work is based on Somoroff's keen sense of observation and interpretation. Absence of Subject lets you revisit August Sander's work allowing you to understand the richness of Sander's intent. In each of August Sander's pictures Michael Somoroff has erased the subject retaining only the background. The unprecedented digital revolution has brought the potential for manipulation into focus. Through the use of software Somoroff has taken out what we have always believed to be the "essential element" — the subject, the portrait. The backgrounds once a secondary fragment, now become the primary motivator. They have now been translated into new fully conceived images that rightfully belong to the "post-modern" idiom.

The exhibition Absence of Subject is a perfect example of a delicate balance of alchemy and inquiry. Conceptually and humanistically oriented each of Somoroff's images demonstrates the persuasive power and aesthetic of August Sander's oeuvre even without the human subject. This is not photography as we are accustomed to but more about the idea of creativity. The images embrace chance and acceptance. What Somoroff celebrates is to establish that post-modern art isn't dislocated, but something with roots, tradition and continuity.

[Mookalafalas]

I thought my photography enthusiasm was recovering, but didn't happen.  This is the last picture I put on flickr, a few weeks ago...

20140323-DC2C9135-2.jpg by Mookalafalas, on Flickr

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Some more abstract work:

[Karl Henning]

Lovely!

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Lovely!

Thanks, Karl!

[Szykneij]

Some more abstract works:

Continues to remove and clean eyeglasses ...

[Karl Henning]

Fellow member of the Massachusetts Bespectacled Society . . . .

[springrite]

Fellow member of the Massachusetts Bespectacled Society . . . .

and its Beijing chapter.

Many of the photos with me in it turns out that way. Let me tell Vanessa that it is abstract. She will love it.

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Continues to remove and clean eyeglasses ...

Fellow member of the Massachusetts Bespectacled Society . . . .

and its Beijing chapter.

Many of the photos with me in it turns out that way. Let me tell Vanessa that it is abstract. She will love it.

Yes, that ought to work. . .   O=O=---

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You had better adjust those eyeglasses once again..

[Szykneij]

You had better adjust those eyeglasses once again..

When I take them off, the picture is in focus!   

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I thought my photography enthusiasm was recovering, but didn't happen.  This is the last picture I put on flickr, a few weeks ago...

Very nice street work again.
How come your enthusiasm is waning?

[Mookalafalas]

Very nice street work again.
How come your enthusiasm is waning?

  I've lost my heart to classical music and GMG
(Actually, that's no joke. Used to take pictures all the time, hang out at a photography site, and spend all my spare money on photo gear. But no longer...)

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  I've lost my heart to classical music and GMG
(Actually, that's no joke. Used to take pictures all the time, hang out at a photography site, and spend all my spare money on photo gear. But no longer...)

Shoot photos and listen to music on a portable player on the same time. 

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[Karl Henning]

Beautifully done.

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Beautifully done.

Thanks, Karl!

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If you thought I would let this thread to sink below the first page...

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... you were wrong.