michaellinder Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) Not sure if this is relevant. Here is a photo I took sometime back. I had a strong feeling, it was a portrait of my 3 year old daughter. I actually uploaded it to a gallery named portraits on PN. Supriyo, your image is quite self-explanatory. To you, the image is a portrait of your daughter. To others, it may be a still-life. To the PN folks, who knows? And does it really matter, except to those who revel in putting things into little boxes made of ticky tacky (with apologies to Malvina Reynolds), which genre best suits the image? Not sure if this is relevant. Here is a photo I took sometime back. I had a strong feeling, it was a portrait of my 3 year old daughter. I actually uploaded it to a gallery named portraits on PN. Edited August 23, 2017 by michaellinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 It's a gut level one. It's contact of a kind I don't get elsewhere. I get to touch a "historical fact" in a way I would not without that picture. But to have this experience, to touch and be touched by this photographic historical fact, I won't find it in the words of a dead art critic or theorist like Szarkowski. I have to go to my shoe box or my family album and look at the pictures. Fred, what you stated here is what I should have stated in connection wit Supriyo's image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 ................ Supriyo, your image is quite self-explanatory. "People give more to pictures than they take from them." — Marcel Duchamp "To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse." — Chuang Tzu .............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman 202 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 "Gordon is a moron" - Jilted John. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTKORcr1jhY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 ................ "People give more to pictures than they take from them." — Marcel Duchamp "To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse." — Chuang Tzu .............. The sound of one hand clapping is silence, Julie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 ........... The St. Louis Zoo by Carol Frost [ … ] In late-summer air thick with rose and lily, I felt the old malevolence; the snake tonguing the air, as if to tell me of its dreaming: — birds of paradise gemming a pond; the unspooling; soft comings on, soft, soft gestures, twisted and surreptitious; the shock; the taste; the kingdom. [ … ] ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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