You gave us examples of sentimental photography by not very creative, but naively impressionable mind. Boris Shoshensky
-- "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: Here's a style of photography that seems no more melancholy than William's paintings: http://chatoyance.blogspot.com/ Could we call this "abstract photography" ? -- (even though we can clearly recognize familiar objects like doors, clouds, cars etc.) Mostly -- I agree -- and I do feel something morbid about a photograph --- unless it's passing quickly by (in a film) or offering views of good figure sculpture. (which were, after all, carefully designed to be perfectly still) >I think it was Benjamin who raised the idea that looking at photos always involves a degree of melancholy because the photo necessarily images a past, irrecoverable, moment. Even if the photo records a joyful moment, it is a dead moment, and thus a reminder of one's mortality. ____________________________________________________________ Click now and find the cable accessories you've been looking for! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc2ULseT2MMiZmxaG0FBm5A0OM YOHFZXVHkTcxb0iBNi10xWc/
