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14 hours ago, christoph_d said:

Colourstudies, 39 years ago. 

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Contax 139, Planar 1.4/50, Orwo UT18

I hope you have some more studies to share with us! This one is floating my boat.

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15 hours ago, stray cat said:

Oh, yeah! This one WANTS to be noticed! Big, bold and brassy in Y*E*L*L*O*W, disorder in the order ("yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir"), daringly, dangerously red-lining at the top. Run it up the flagpole with that wire and see who salutes it!

But hang on - what's going on here? - it's been REDACTED!

A wonderful, mischievous and alluring interplay Rog. Most certainly billboard-sized in the backlit transparency propping up one of those round corners in the Guggenheim!

Wink, wink--nudge, nudge, my wishdream of all time, to claim some real estate with art in the incomparable Guggenheim. Billboard-sized, no less! Gasp! (Never mind the slight incongruity of flat art on a curved wall, architectural rules beg to be challenged.)

Yes, I started with the notion of redacted yellow journalism. Yellow was a truck making a delivery on 2nd St., and I worked to get that wire just so, which was part of the back door mechanism. I didn't realize it would stand in for the flag pole hoist, as you creatively suggest. The flag of yellow journalism coaxing saluting. Absolutely, as you point out, "disorder in the order." The wire as the connotation of tensile strength and the dangers of tension. It's true, I imagined the text and exactly what would be redacted: the heading with the date and perhaps an ambiguous letterhead, then the addressee, the opening argument certainly needed obscuration, and don't forget the end focus of the first paragraph. Is there perhaps a second paragraph or an enumeration of bullet points mandating a call to action. Certainly, the concluding finality of an order with a note of urgency is unquestionably redacted, as is the identity of author. It's all there but isn't there. Yellow journalism with blood red laceration. My posting preceding this one I titled Censorship, but it is actually the color field of a book burning--the ultimate redaction.

Thanks, Phil, for fleshing out the redactions of my disordered piece. Now, I can lean back in a Wassily chair and daydream the Guggenheim. Phil, you're too funny.

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17 hours ago, philipus said:

Another one from the 'Where I have slept' project


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203FE 40/4 Ektar X1

There's no denying the photographic record, evidence of three bodies that were once there, or perhaps are still there. And yet, the only witness cannot bear the sight. The palette: gray, titanium white, and cobalt violet (the color of clotted blood or nearly the signature of Roman royalty?). I am guessing the non-witness is Donald Sutherland heeding the direction, "Don't Look Now."
 

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13 minutes ago, Wayne said:

Entrance to Primitive Area, National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA,) Friendship, Indiana...............Sweet relief from the Iphone. OOOOOh Yes! They are very serious about it.

Zeiss Super Ikonta IV, Fuji Acros

Well, no one is going to muzzle me; this is one awesome "shot!" Seriously!

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NYC 1980. Dusties revisited. Leica M4, FP4.

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7 hours ago, Ernest said:

I hope you have some more studies to share with us! This one is floating my boat.

Ernest,

I will, if I find more 🙂. My filing system is not exactly foolproof, and I am plodding along searching through a selection of slide boxes to see what is worth scanning... Also, unlike my Kodachromes, Orwo UT18 has acquired a certain colour shift with time. 

Here's a picture from about the same time as the previous one - a colour study of a different kind if you want - September '82, somewhere on Mallorca.

I probably used a very long f8/500 third party lens for this one. And I am not quite sure if I pushed the Agfa 50S to 200, which would explain the grain. 

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Yashica, 8/500 (?), Agfa 50S

 

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Picnic anyone?

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Leica M6, Summicron 50 (III), Kodak Ektar.

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20 hours ago, mdachs said:

First I took a photo of my apprentice

 

 

 

 

then she made a picture of me

 

m6 2/90 I/2 xp2

 

Joachim

Lovely photo's Joachim, especially the details, the busy workspace before your apprentice, her concentrated look and your activity with the torch.

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Leica iiif/kodak Portra 160/Nippon Kogaku Nikkor 5cm

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Leica iiif/kodak Portra 160/Nippon Kogaku Nikkor 5cm

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Ektar EI 200; FM2n Nikkor 50mm f1.2

 

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Silent Moment III

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Hasselblad 500cm, Planar 2,8/80mm, Ilford HP5+, Adox FX39II, Vuescan, Epson V800, darktable

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m6 1.4/35 pre  xp2

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Print on the wall

M3 | Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6 | Kodak TMax 400 (20 years old)  | Rodinal 1:50

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10 hours ago, christoph_d said:

Ernest,

I will, if I find more 🙂. My filing system is not exactly foolproof, and I am plodding along searching through a selection of slide boxes to see what is worth scanning... Also, unlike my Kodachromes, Orwo UT18 has acquired a certain colour shift with time. 

Here's a picture from about the same time as the previous one - a colour study of a different kind if you want - September '82, somewhere on Mallorca.

I probably used a very long f8/500 third party lens for this one. And I am not quite sure if I pushed the Agfa 50S to 200, which would explain the grain. 

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Yashica, 8/500 (?), Agfa 50S

 

This is a very luminous rendition: grain and color shift underscoring a color impressionist statement, the depiction of the changing quality of light in the landscape. And what I find significant, like a visual footnote, is the small figure. squatting, perhaps collecting something with his blue bucket. This footnote is a statement that this is the mediation of wild nature with man's tilled farm fields. The line of shrubs cutting across the field may be an irrigation trough or simply a fence, but it serves man's industry, nonetheless. The Monet lighting and coloration calls to mind earlier 18th-century aesthetics of the sublime and the beautiful, on one hand, and the picturesque on the other. In 1775, Thomas Gray mentioned his use of a "Claude glass" to view the picturesque to fully appreciate its nature. The Claude glass, named after painter Claude Lorrain, was a blackened mirror that artists or observers used to create art works in the style of Claude Lorrain. An artist held this small pocket mirror, turned his back to the scene, and observed the landscape reflected in the mirror. Certainly, it's pre-photographic and a backward glancing view of nature that you have photographed here head-on.

Not generally recognized is the notion of the 18th-century in terms of pre-cinema, since William Gilpin, who defined the picturesque aesthetic, mounted a Claude glass on his carriage to observe "a succession of high-coloured pictures . . . continually gliding before the eye." I wonder if he should be credited with the first rearview carriage mirror.

Thanks, christoph_d, for this inspiring work. A very large print would emphasize the 18th-century heritage.

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4 hours ago, Steve Ricoh said:

Ektar EI 200; FM2n Nikkor 50mm f1.2

 

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Wow! I even want to crop for just the blur. A winner, taking a victory lap in overdrive!

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