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cameraman_2
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Maumelle, AR
Posts: 408
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Jim Jones
Senior Member & Contributor
Registered: March 2004
Location: rural northwest Missouri
Posts: 2,565
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Sat August 11, 2007 1:06pm
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Rating: 10.00
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The contrast doesn't bother me. There's detail wherever needed. It might also work in much lower contrast. The tightly cropped and well defined composition of three similar, but also dissimilar, subjects is good. The strong graphic qualities hold up even in the thumbnail.
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winger
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Registered: May 2004
Location: southwest PA
Posts: 2,021
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Sat August 11, 2007 1:49pm
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Rating: 10.00
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I agree with Jim. This is one of my favorites already.
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Bethe
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Valery
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Registered: October 2006
Posts: 390
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Sat August 11, 2007 3:01pm
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Contrast and oversharpening is not a fault. It's an "efect". BTW - that's a sort of technique I was always envious of in the film era. And I never could master it.
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cameraman_2
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Maumelle, AR
Posts: 408
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Sat August 11, 2007 7:42pm
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yes it can be an effect to an extent, if u did that I would select out the background cause the peace of wood is just toooooooooooooooooooooooo sharp. I know my boss would say it is way to sharp cause we looked at some images of books in a gallery and they weren't to sharp at all but he thought they where. He also has an image in MoMA New York in there permant collection.
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Jim Jones
Senior Member & Contributor
Registered: March 2004
Location: rural northwest Missouri
Posts: 2,565
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Sat August 11, 2007 9:59pm
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Ah yes, MoMA New York, those folks who inflicted the late John Szarkowski upon us. Maybe us hicks in the midwest are just too dense to appreciate him and some of the other East Coast Giants of Art and Photography. We had one of them, from a fine East Coast family, as the head of Kansas City's Nelson-Adkins Museum years ago. While here he published a book on the artist Thomas Hart Benton. I regret not having the chance to castigate him for daring to write about someone like Benton without ever (I'm sure) walking barefoot through a pasture and experiencing fresh cow manure squirting up between the toes. There are some things in life that one can't learn from books. Without real experience, writers often misshape history. Stieglitz, from his little gallery, did much to promote many artists, and hinder a few. Szarkowsky, from the bully pulpit of MoMA, could have accomplished more had he only been Stieglitz or Steichen. A handfull of west coast photographers may have been more significant, working in their homes and darkrooms, than Szarkowski with all the power of MoMA at his disposal.
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AJazzyone - Todd
Administrator & Contributor
Registered: September 2004
Location: Collinsville IL / St. Louis MO
Posts: 3,282
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mcs550
Senior Member & Contributor
Registered: January 2006
Location: Southgate, Mi.
Posts: 187
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Mon August 13, 2007 6:14pm
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Great history lesson Jim. I first heard (met?) Mr. Szarkowski as one of the featured narrators on the American Masters episode of Ansel Adams and I must admit was taken by his words. Then I started reading up on him, looking at his photogrphy and all that and you're correct. He wasn't that talented an artist and kind of a pompous ass.
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wolfy
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 871
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Mon August 13, 2007 7:50pm
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chris, i love this one. i like the whole series. I think they would look awesome grouped and framed together.
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