andyedward Posted August 13, 2012 Share #1 Posted August 13, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I find some of T. S. Eliots poetry to be descriptive to the point where a vivid visual depiction of his words appears in my mind, and this reminds me of some of the work by great b+w photographers of Eliots era. I wish I had been alive during that era to photograph the subjects he wrote about, and wish I could photograph as well as he wrote. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 Hi andyedward, Take a look here B+W film photography inspiration from reading T. S. Eliot?!. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
waltere54 Posted August 16, 2012 Share #2 Posted August 16, 2012 His work certainly is inspiring! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangur Ban Posted August 16, 2012 Share #3 Posted August 16, 2012 What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltere54 Posted August 16, 2012 Share #4 Posted August 16, 2012 LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted August 16, 2012 Share #5 Posted August 16, 2012 T.S. Eliot? I hope you don't mean 'Cats'! Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyedward Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share #6 Posted August 16, 2012 T.S. Eliot? I hope you don't mean 'Cats'! Chris I was thinking more along the lines of "Portrait of a Lady", the "Preludes", "Gerontion", or "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from his more widely known work (I grow old… I grow old…I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted August 17, 2012 Share #7 Posted August 17, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) "So this is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." The only bit of his work that has remained in my fast disappearing grey cells! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblitz Posted August 18, 2012 Share #8 Posted August 18, 2012 And measuring out our life in teaspoons. Or digital film arguments Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masjah Posted August 18, 2012 Share #9 Posted August 18, 2012 Personally, I have to admit that increasingly I feel "like a patient etherised upon a table". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyedward Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share #10 Posted August 18, 2012 Personally, I have to admit that increasingly I feel "like a patient etherised upon a table". Get well soon, John! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur Posted September 4, 2012 Share #11 Posted September 4, 2012 Shamelessly resurrecting this thread, the imagery from T.S.Eliot is an inspiration, though I am loath to say is often an existing image fitting the words in retrospect. Perhaps unkindly a self fulfilling prophecy and nullifying the creative process where word should meet the image at creation. For instance the image below ring the words ... "I keep my countenance, I remain self-posessed Except where a street piano, mechanical and tired Reiterates some worn-out common song" What I have often contemplated is setting up my interpretation of Gerontion and be "Guided by vanities" Food for thought C Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/185569-bw-film-photography-inspiration-from-reading-t-s-eliot/?do=findComment&comment=2104508'>More sharing options...
Messsucherkamera Posted September 10, 2012 Share #12 Posted September 10, 2012 I find haiku inspiring - photographically and otherwise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted September 11, 2012 Share #13 Posted September 11, 2012 One of my college photo professors teamed up with a literature professor (who was also an exhibited photographer) to teach a "Photography and Literature" course for several years in the 1970's. Read (or write), and then take pictures to illustrate the text (literal, interpretative, whatever.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltere54 Posted September 11, 2012 Share #14 Posted September 11, 2012 But to what purpose Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves I do not know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted September 11, 2012 Share #15 Posted September 11, 2012 Photographs that attempt to reflect T.S. Eliot's poetry would likely include what elements? In Bateleur's photo we note the keyboard player, out-of-focus listeners, with the later in proper relationship, but to me the image is not profound within the context of Eliot's intent. Neither are any of mine. What elements can embrace his work? Self questioning, anti-canonical form. An element beyond knowing, inscrutable. The fundamental ignorance of humankind which is its behavior, its being in a false state. God as fallacy. God as evil. Eternal cascading forgetfulness. The Laws of Nature as prison and deception. Can you recall any photograph that expresses, or tries to express such? . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiMPLiFY Posted September 11, 2012 Share #16 Posted September 11, 2012 "I keep my countenance, I remain self-posessed" Perhaps this is too literal but when I spot the 2 pairs of tiny hands at the end of the keyboard I think the grown up is doing a very good job keeping her countenance or at least her count ... she looks like she's struggling to maintain her own song and not be distracted by the little ones. I can also almost "feel" what I can only assume to be the children's mother breathing down her neck. Very uncomfortable image but I like it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur Posted September 13, 2012 Share #17 Posted September 13, 2012 Thank you both for your comments! Though it was not my intention when posting the image I realize that comments are so very valuable for the maturation of the visual experience and capturing it as a reflection of ones own expressiveness. As an aside there was quite a cacophony from the piano and I waited for a pair of hands in the foreground to be whipped away before making my image. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allamande Posted September 17, 2012 Share #18 Posted September 17, 2012 This is an interesting thread that I just came across. Eliot's metaphysical poetry (from Prufrock to the Waste Land) conjures up Garry Winogrand's work in my mind, without even trying hard. Ece Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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