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Response to Just Another Street Shot

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
If you step back from this immediate image, you will see that all of Jeff's images are remarkably consistent and deal quite specifically with his deliberately stated "meaning".

I can't find the quote right now, but some clear thinking woman who was (is) a writer, said that the paragraph is the emotional unit of language. In photographic terms, I feel we must string images into sentences, then paragraphs, that convey the feelings, emotions and conditions that may not be obviously represented by objects in the images.

In musical terms, you might have a favorite lick, or stanza, which is catchy and memorable, but the real emotional power is conveyed, and the genius revealed, in movements, in verses and refrains in the composition, complete, and constructed of deliberate details... t

(posted 8640 days ago)

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