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Post by kate on Aug 2, 2023 16:03:26 GMT
Not sure about bland. How can a photograph be bland ? ..... I take heart from a generation of mostly American photographers who made fame and probably fortune from photographing the ordinary.
Ordinary becomes notable with the passage of time.
Stephen Shore. |
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Post by kate on Aug 2, 2023 16:27:28 GMT
zx9 If you don't already know of him, Josef Sudek might please you. 
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Post by peterob on Aug 2, 2023 16:40:57 GMT
Not sure about bland. How can a photograph be bland ? ..... I take heart from a generation of mostly American photographers who made fame and probably fortune from photographing the ordinary.
Ordinary becomes notable with the passage of time.
I thought their intent was rather to record the mundane or quotidian. I've never been that impressed or understood why fame resulted. |
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Post by zx9 on Aug 2, 2023 17:31:58 GMT
I take heart from a generation of mostly American photographers who made fame and probably fortune from photographing the ordinary.
Ordinary becomes notable with the passage of time.
Stephen Shore. Yes Shore, Weston (Brett) Eggleston et al.
Shore posts on instagram, some as you would expect, urban, new topographic some not what you would expect, pretty flowers in his garden, rain drops on Alchemilla mollis, real stereotype amateur photographer pictures.
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Post by zx9 on Aug 2, 2023 17:44:48 GMT
zx9 If you don't already know of him, Joseph Sudek might please you. Thank you I did not know of him, a quick image search he was quite eclectic with an almost constant texture (texture is the wrong word but sort of works) the table top or window sill pictures are very of the time but not, Prague and forest photos I very much like.
I have found a couple of documentaries to watch which should keep me occupied this evening.
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Post by zx9 on Aug 2, 2023 17:47:40 GMT
I take heart from a generation of mostly American photographers who made fame and probably fortune from photographing the ordinary.
Ordinary becomes notable with the passage of time.
I thought their intent was rather to record the mundane or quotidian. I've never been that impressed or understood why fame resulted.In a word MOMA, right place at the right time. |
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Post by kate on Aug 2, 2023 18:30:07 GMT
I've never forgiven Shore for his shots of Sutherland (Highlands) which are so banal it's hard to credit he went there.
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Post by zx9 on Aug 2, 2023 18:35:35 GMT
Another example of mundane or bland, I know it is no arbiter of good taste or artistic merit but this was in Flickr explore yesterday.  Down 2023-07-26-0017 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr As Nige will tell you, explore is unfathomable. |
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Post by kate on Aug 2, 2023 18:50:08 GMT
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Post by peterob on Aug 2, 2023 19:06:16 GMT
Could try for banal. Empty landscape with a bit of pretty heather and some escaped plantation conifers. Not sure it was worth the last ten minutes tarting it up.  IMG_0094.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by stevewmh on Aug 2, 2023 22:00:37 GMT
An Eggleston moment....  Used to dismiss Eggleston's pics as nothing more than snaps and not even well composed snaps. It's only recently I've started seeing something in his work. It's sort of, you know they have a lot wrong with these mundane images yet at the same time they compel the eye to linger and return. |
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Post by peterob on Aug 3, 2023 6:39:43 GMT
Dead. The only thing that occurs is dead wood. Here is a deceased tree.  DSCF2278-2.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by kate on Aug 3, 2023 6:40:32 GMT
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Post by kate on Aug 3, 2023 6:43:10 GMT
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Post by peterob on Aug 3, 2023 6:57:49 GMT
Not the dead tree that I was thinking of. This picture (taken with a Fuji 100-400) subsequently cost me whatever the price of a Fuji 150-600 was. From my very first walk in Ness Gardens at the end of February this year.  DSCF1529.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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