synagogue

[jeno_domjan]

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My intention was take a frame, which is not obvious at first sight, but gives the answer after a short time. What you think of this synagogue with the two tablets of stone, between the chimneys or should I let there be more light in the foreground? (then it’s not a silhouette anymore)

 

Thanks:

Jeno

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[ijporter]

Sorry friend, but even after looking at it for a while, I still don't get it. The 'two tablets of stone' don't look significant to me even after your suggestion. If the photo reminds me of anything, it's Alfred Hitchcock's film 'The Birds'.

 

with best wishes,

 

Ian

[fernando_b]

Jeno,

regarding two religions I could guess something of symbolic in your image, but I don't know if it is what you intend.

Fernando.

[jeno_domjan]

It’s great to have this forum around, so we can make rehearsals, before letting it go ‘public’. If it fails here, it won’t work “over there” either. Thanks for helping.

 

To make it simple and clear this is nothing symbolic, but a photograph of a back lit building, namely a synagogue in the middle, with surrounding houses. While a mosque or a church may be easily recognised by it’s contour in such circumstance (i.e. silhouette like situation), this one is not that unambiguous & clear-cut. Sure, I’ll have to make it some other way around. If I make a series of back lit architectural landmarks of a town, region or society, & put that in front of pupils or visitors, readers, etc, will they be able to distinguish, & make the connections between form & function? This mostly depends on the photograph. It must give some clue, but shouldn’t be obvious. However there may be different levels of sophistication in this hide & seek game, I understand that this frame failed.

 

#2: This one I’m posting now, is a pic of a church, that was originally a mosque, built of the stones of another catholic church, with some mid war extension (hence the cross & the moon on the dome). The foggy morning light gives a calm background. Here the form & the function may come together, still we have to know the history of the building.

 

The Hitchock effect I suppose, is because of the birds on the wire. Next time I’ll shoot a gun before I push the release, but actually I like them on the roof, they make it more alive.

 

Thanks again for the comment. I really appreciate them.

 

Jeno

[fernando_b]

Ok, I think to have understood what you wrote. Please excuse me for posting an image in your thread: agreeing with you, how many who don't know this building could guess from its form the function? No meant about shadow shape.

Fernando.