I agree with Bob and Stan, and I’d only add some of the photos look very much like what might be found in urban areas at night. Maybe the photos aren’t small town enough :-). I do think the use of light and shadow is very nice in these photos—well executed.
Cheers, Christine > On Mar 11, 2017, at 7:53 AM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> > wrote: > > Thanks for the comments Bob. You expressed much of what I was feeling when I > saw these photos, but with much more targeted critique than I could have done. > > My initial thought was that this collection were nice enough photos, and that > every one was familiar to me. I think some are familiar because I have seen > those scenes through the eyes of other photographers, others are familiar > because they show a place I know. Yes, cliche, but a nicely done collection > of cliches. > > stan > >> On Mar 11, 2017, at 3:00 AM, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 11 Mar 2017, at 04:39, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017, at 20:46, Stanley Halpin wrote: >>> >>>>> Night-time in America's small towns >>> >>>>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39040237> >>> >>>>> Photographer Daniel Freeman's nocturnal journey around the United >>>>> States. >>> >>> >>> these are nicely done; what interests me most is trying to put myself in >>> the head of Brits trying to imagine the US through these pictures >> >> The copy says he's following in the footsteps of Shore, Eggleston and Frank, >> but they all showed the USA in a way that hadn't really been seen before. I >> think the comparison is very flattering to this guy, whose photos are fine, >> but in my opinion are not showing anything new or in a new way. >> >> To me they show a rather clichéd view of Americana, influenced by Hopper as >> well as the aforementioned photographers. It feels to me as though he has >> gone looking for a received idea of the US, and found it, whereas Frank and >> Eggleston (I'm not so familiar with Shore) were able to change the way we >> experience America because they saw it anew. >> >> B >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
