"Lady Walking"
Anchorage, Alaska
Angles and contrast and minimalist details were my goals in printing, but not the shooting. It was a Minox 8x11mm snap, OK? Full frame. Shot at an angle to the street, but turned in the easel to make street level and building lean. If it doesn't work, the frame cost me less than $.03 !

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), March 09, 2000

Answers

What's interesting about this photo, Tony's previous posting, and several of Tom's postings is that they use people in a radically different way than most of the photos that preceded them. The more "portrait" and "fashion" type shots use the person as a primary subject; what should interest us is the people and how they are portrayed.

In these shots, the people become symbols set in their environment, which might be a frozen street in an urban (?) environment or a large warehouse wall. We have to think about the relationship of the person to the world around them - their significance, or lack thereof, their humanity in a vanishing landscape, or maybe just temporal visitors in an infinite universe.

In the more traditional people photos, we are confronted with how we feel about the specific person in each photo. Our reactions are shaped by what we think that person might be like and how we would relate to them.

I'm not sure I have a point, but it's an interesting contrast.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org), March 10, 2000.

yes jeff, this one works well that way...Tony, I like this one better ..you have a good eye.

-- Trib (linhof6@hotmail.com), March 10, 2000.

I like this image. The composition might be a bit tighter if cropped to eliminate most of the street and the white space above the building.

-- John McCormack (jpmccormac@aol.com), March 13, 2000.