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On ‎3‎/‎7‎/‎2020 at 12:24 PM, Nowhereman said:

A few days ago, I posted the color version in this image in the M10 picture thread. The subject is the wife of the man in the dark B&W image that I posted here a week or so ago. She is the mother of an 8-months old baby. When I took this picture, I ran into her near Hualamphong Station. She was in a great hurry to buy food and get back to her baby; so, we spoke only for 30 seconds and I took two pictures of her. I haven't labelled this image as part of the Empire of Signs series, not because this image cannot be read in the semiotic sense of Roland Barthes, but because I'm not sure that I will include portraits in that series, despite what I view as the immediacy of this image.

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You have embarked on an challenging and novel premise using Barthes's Empire of Signs to inform portraiture in the broadest sense, not limited to people but landscapes and urban images, as well. You may find support in Barthes's Empire of Signs for an argument to include images of people in his chapter on Bunraku theatre,  "Inside/Outside," particularly if you consider photography as a kind of theatre. Barthes says that "Bunraku . . . transforms . . . the motor link which proceeds from character to actor and which is always conceived, in the West, as the expressive means of an inwardness." By extension, this begs the question: does the work, the portrait (whether landscape or person), express inwardness?

You might take a look at Chris Marker's Coreennes (Korean Women). 

Online description: "Recent Korean reprint of Chris Marker's rarest book, Coreennes (Korean Women), his photographic study of Korea and Korean women from 1959. The text is in Korean with the translation approved by Chris Marker, but the photographs are the main event. 150 pages of some of Marker's finest work." Some of the images are available at chrismarker.org and online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Chris Marker Korean Women&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACXqdrgjxWizgImCSeJqRA_1h1zZ1pxjY80P-cjGuRZxMetzFgKsBl8xqMMHMZ-RQiJLcnP6AliDHrA10qyholUvzfRedJEr-yRIkWc1i5X1UpmhEblr5edWZ2yfLvtdO4ZEDbwbqdcAoB5o4qEgmSeJqRA_1h1zREwFSaBJmCGSyoSCZ1pxjY80P-cEVRS0nk7ayMqKhIJjGuRZxMetzERDE_1Y7YB4URQqEglgKsBl8xqMMBEUJoItfaP8FCoSCXMZ-RQiJLcnEbUC3YeTqR6cKhIJP6AliDHrA10RhAyt2wlmHagqEgkqyholUvzfRRHuO0cr17HtyCoSCedJEr-yRIkWEe47RyvXse3IKhIJc1i5X1UpmhERhQ6AaVC7TtQqEgkblr5edWZ2yRFdwyBXmD-khioSCfLvtdO4ZEDbEfs_1KZStrrSlKhIJwbqdcAoB5o4RDflAFoR5h1NhhQ6AaVC7TtQ&hl=en&ved=0CBwQuIIBahcKEwiY9Nat4IvoAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCA&biw=2344&bih=1277

English translation;

https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/KRFAXe

Thumbs up for your project.

Rog

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55 minutes ago, Ernest said:

You have embarked on an challenging and novel premise using Barthes's Empire of Signs to inform portraiture in the broadest sense, not limited to people but landscapes and urban images, as well...

Thanks, Rog. I'll read the material on Chris Markers Corréenes

The point of departure for this series involves a general concept: images as “end of language” in the Zen/haiku sense of emptiness, as Roland Barthes discusses in his Empire of Signs — and a visual concept (high contrast, reductionist B&W). The visual point of departure is not only the high contrast B&W of Moriyama’s Light and Shadow, but also the reductionist darkness of Paulo Nozolino, a still narrower range of B&W. I’ve written a bit about this in this post and this postwhich mentions Moriyama taking photography in his Light and Shadow "as far as possible from the realm of words", as well as in this post on Paulo Nozolino. I've only started thinking about this and shall determine the actual form, a series or a book, and the direction as I get further into the photographs. The expression of inwardness that you mention is probably inherent to the project. On the form, I'm still leaving open the possibility of photographs that are sections "headings" might be in color but, at this stage, that is a consideration for later.
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Sony 7Rii w/Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 70-210.

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M10 | Summaron-M 1:5.6/28 | ISO 3200 | f/5.6 | 1/125 sec | Bangkok – Empire of Signs

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3 hours ago, Keith (M) said:

Three views of a local canal from this morning's walk.  M10M, 50mm Summilux-M ASPH, orange filter.

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The middle shot is just o-o-oh la la Keith.

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M10 | Summaron-M 1:5.6/28 | ISO 1600 | f/5.6 | 1/750 sec | Bangkok – Empire of Signs

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