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Overall, Ward, there are too many straightforward head shots (I know I'm being cruel,but you asked me to be). This is an interesting variation. Is the logic of it that the photo is 'drunk' - as well as that the tatoo is interesting?
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This is of course a lovely shot, but I would say (again, being really brutal) you don't need two of this pair, so choose one, and I think the other is the more striking composition, though this has more warmth.
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This is a perfect example of a shot that does give us more info. about place. More like this please (although the shadows are maybe a little dark - not surprising since you're heroically trying to use Pan F at night: maybe consider varying the film and trying some Delta 3200?)
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This is I would say is weaker, only because it provides no contextual info. whatsoever, no sense that it was taken in a particular place (even a busstop, like the first image). I'm trying to think in terms of your SPECIFIC project, not abstract, 'purely' photographic terms. -
This also great - it's the juxtaposition of the shaved head and the turban.
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And you already know I like this one. Such a warm moment (in contrast to my own style, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it). -
Ward, you asked me to go through the folders and give some more detailed comments about possible editing. This is a great one, to start with, although it is symptomatic of a more general problem at the level of the project as a whole - considered as a portrait of a community - in that it doesn't contain much contextual info. You need more images that provide that kind of info., I'd say, but keep this one!
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Arriving late, I can only voice my agreement with the above. As you say, a huge pity that the 'mixture' of sports iconography isn't clearer, but there's enough going on here to hold the interest anyway. -
Actually, this improves on second viewing, and as one thinks about how you must have been holding the camera in order to make it. In other words, it's a good example of why the Lenswork mantra, 'A good photograph is one that makes the viewer so aware of the subject that they are unaware of the print' is patently wrong. Good photographs always insome way thematize their own construction. The trick is not to do it in a vulgar way (using extreme wide-angles, etc.). -
This makes perfect sense if you know that Eric is a self-confessed Eggleston fan, and actually I like it, although the key to understanding it also reveals it to be slightly derivative. In any case, the point is that 'visually interesting' is not synonymous with 'beautiful', a point that many members of the PN community seem to have trouble grasping. -
I like this a lot too (and sorry - this one is not too large). -
Both of the shots using shadow lines are interesting - but posted too large to view easily! -
This one also grabbed my attention straight away. It comes through that this is a heartfelt project - do you know Bruce Davidson's book / work on the East 100th St. housing project? It's coming from a similar place to your work, and might give you ideas about how to expand the project beyond portraits (assuming you want to do so).
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Ward, thought I'd check out your work after reading your contribution to the Annie Liebowitz debate. There's some beautiful, sensitive work in these folders - this one is possibly my favourite. Maybe though you might consider editing out some of the doubled or weaker shots, to increase the impact of the stronger ones? Obviously this work is based viewed as a sequence.
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The focus is off, but the marvellous posture and effective composition probably makes up for it.
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Another ratings travesty. The lousy scan makes it unclear whether the figure 'inside' the tent is a real human, but I'd guess so. If so, then this is a brilliant interconnection of different surfaces, spaces, and layers of representation.
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I don't normally rate, but the 3. averages for this were so outrageous that I felt the need to put the record straight.
Overall, v. good PJ work. This is even better.
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A smart exercise in defamiliarization that the Surrealists would have approved of. -
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I like this a lot, but could do without the cheesy framing and typeface.
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Great use of high-contrast aesthetic. -
Nice work.
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The expression on the girl's face is beautiful - very human, and the moment is prefectly chosen. I'm not such a 'warm' photographer myself, but this reminds me of someone like Boubat.
Jody is another of the vets. He is in and out of the VA hospital for leukemia and DTs.
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