I'd like to see you attempt putting some of these portraits you've been making into larger context. Take a look at Richard Renaldi's series "Fall River Boys" (http://www.renaldi.com/photographs/fallriver/index.html) and Alec Soth's "Dog Days Bogota" (http://www.alecsoth.com/Bogota/pages/frameset.html) to see how they give their portraits context in different ways. I have another person in mind for you to check out but I can't think of it at the moment...I'll let you know.
I'd like to see you attempt putting some of these portraits you've been making into larger context.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at Richard Renaldi's series "Fall River Boys" (http://www.renaldi.com/photographs/fallriver/index.html) and Alec Soth's "Dog Days Bogota" (http://www.alecsoth.com/Bogota/pages/frameset.html) to see how they give their portraits context in different ways. I have another person in mind for you to check out but I can't think of it at the moment...I'll let you know.
Rose
What do we know about this young man from this photograph? What don't we know? Perhaps more important, what will he let us know?
ReplyDeleteInteresting questions.
There's a gap, an opening, between his signing, and his expression and his stance.
What does that opening, or gap, tell us? Show us?