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Response to Portrait Without A Person?

from John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com)
> Without your explanation and without the context of other photos > supporting the theme, I don't get the sense that it's about > homelessnees. But I don't think its vagueness is terminal. . .

> As far as pictorial qualities go there are lots of things I like > about this image, but as a portrait I think it falls flat. That > anonymous-looking piece of paper has no personality that I can see, > and might just as well be somebodys shopping list. It needs your > written description very much.

I don't know quite what it is about photographers and their aversion to contextual information (such as the written word or being part of a series).

The only shots that don't need a context are stock shots - which are just visual cliches - and ones so familiar that they've become cliches.

(posted 8566 days ago)

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