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What I was hoping is that those who viewed the photo could invent a "scenario" for the picture--in other words, what are these women doing, where are they, why is one blindfolded, what is they're relationship? Etcetera.

-- Peter Hughes (leo948@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000

Answers

uh, "...their relationship..."

-- Peter Hughes (leo948@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

In that case...You may hate me for this, but: they are in a filthy rich (and just plain filthy) old man's maze garden. They have been instructed to find their way out of the maze within an alloted time--or else (or else what?). The blindfolded woman is deaf, and the woman without the blindfold actually IS blind. They are trying to find their way out, lest they be forced into the old man's terrible plan. The woman looking towards the camera is doing so because the old man--the photographer's position--just called to her because she was getting too close to the end of the maze and he wanted to confuse her.

Or not...

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.


One woman is insane.

The other is trying to get her to stop screaming at the neighbors across the yard.

"Get back inside, Jane!"

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Man, it must suck to have a sister who dresses in a corset and velvet dress, blindfolds herself, and just screams at anyone who walks by.

-- Edward Kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), February 06, 2000.


By the way, what's with the relentless crotch-grabbing?

-- Edward Kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), February 06, 2000.

A photographer consumed a huge quantity of acid and spent the next 24 hours locked in a room with every photograph ever taken by Helmut Newton. On emerging from the room, the photographer downed a bottle of single malt scotch, coerced two women into dressing up and proceeded to scare the living crap out of them for two hours of shooting.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org), February 06, 2000.


Dear Penthouse..... But seriously, I would simply title the series "trust" (not having seen any others).

-- C Terry (yeti-man@webtv.net), February 06, 2000.

btw, peter, aside from my comments, these are technically excellent photos, and they wouldn't look out of place in a high profile magazine ad. Well, aside from the crotch grabbing.

-- ed kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), February 07, 2000.

I like the crotch grabbing, in both of them. It gives her hand a place and a reason to be. And everyone's hands deserve a place to be (I mean come on, hands are people too!). Is this the type of feedback you were looking for Peter?

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 07, 2000.

Is she grabbing her crotch or holding her skirts out of the way so she doesn't fall down? I vote for the latter, do you know how hard it is to walk blindfolded in skirts like that? .... well neither do I. With the clothes and the surrounding area it seems more like Sunday afternoon play at the park rather than mysterious tittilation.

-- grant groberg (grant@emeraldp.com), February 07, 2000.

Why is the horizon not level? Am I the only one who find this distracting?

In general I find that pictures like this are more interesting or charged if the participants do not look directly at the camera. I want to feel like I'm spying on them, not participating.

But it's a good effort. I wish my images were as good....

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 07, 2000.



i find both images interesting and of more than passing value. the fact that many differing scenarios are possible is an inhererent validation of the concept. the dark haired woman, in my view, is the "keeper" of the blonde, who she is "showing", as a horse might be shown, to a buyer. very charged with dark, sexual ambiguities. the "buyer" is the eye of the camera, the "taker" of the image.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), February 07, 2000.

Wayne, I really like that interpretation, and when I read it it reminded me of Chinatown for some reason, like the woman is trying to sell a piece of fish that will soon go bad...

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 07, 2000.

Too much Champagne for the sorority at the soiree?... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), February 07, 2000.

I can offer no "scenario". What did you have in mind when you set it up? By the way would you share the details of the shot film, camera lens, etc.

-- Jeff Abt (digit@lcc.net), February 08, 2000.

That is NOT where a woman's crotch is.

-- stuart phillips (stuart.phillips@umb.edu), February 08, 2000.


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