For Christine Holtz
Shot in 16:9 aspect ratio, Panasonic LX2
8 responses
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Simon Kossoff gave props (30 Dec 2008):
terrific shot Alexis!
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Nelson Campbell gave props (31 Dec 2008):
Shriek!! lol...
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Jean Pierre Vacherot gave props (31 Dec 2008):
Some work fo r2009 !
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UnEasy said (31 Dec 2008):
Clearly, this photo has immense visual appeal for a multitude of reasons. I'd just like to mention one little aspect that I find intriguing.
Most of the "canvas" is taken up by the bookcases, utilized as open filing cabinets. The horizontal lines of the cabinets, and the perpendicular, vertical lines of the files, are rather 'formalistic' and pleasing to the eye, not only for the sense of order most of us respond to, but to the wonderful array of files stored within, these dizzying "bands of color" of. Yet just to the left, and, (although not as striking) to the right as well, order seems to have broken down, a carelessness in the placement of frames against a wall, a paper askew. And, most interestingly, the black cloth (garment?) just left of center, which antagonizes the studied symmetry of the shelves. The crop could have excluded these "intrusive" elements to left and right; the garment or cloth removed. That the photographer chose not to bears testimony to his imagination, and gives the photo a dimension it might not otherwise have known. Man's unrelenting attempts to bring order to chaos, in everything from the mundane to the sublime, which never succeed "perfectly", efforts with the fingerprints of their creators, invariably left behind. -
Stef said (5 Jan 2009):
it looks like a headless person with files
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Christine Holtz said (18 Jan 2009):
Love the line, color and pattern
Thank you for the honor -
Jesse Morgan Barnett said (23 Jan 2009):
i have bad teeth and this makes me uncomfortable
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Laura Hartley said (15 Apr 2009):
I agree with Kevin, point by point. Additionally, I am somewhat overwhelmed, in a good way, in thought, by what all of these files mean: LIVES.....the vastness of these lives, complied neatly in alphabetical order. And that mysterious black "figure," or that's what it appears to me? An odd touch to an orderly space that makes me question, "What the heck?" You have a very artistic, subtly funny, and intriguing eye to detail and to the mysery of the mundane....your titles are also particularly illuminating and thoughtful.
