[NetBehaviour] photos with people for contrast to london street

Joel Weishaus joelweishaus at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 16:05:39 CEST 2014


Like slices of specimens prepared for slides.

-Joel


On 7/1/2014 2:53 AM, michael szpakowski wrote:
> I think there's also something clinical about shutter speed in that it cuts through the way we perform ourselves to take a give us a very candid slice of frozen appearance...
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> Hi James;
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> People in public "act out."
> This acting out reveals a part of themselves, ourselves, not displayed
> in the (shrinking) zone of privacy.
> For example, the banker is aware that he or she has a role to play, and
> thus self-consciously looks and walks like "a banker."
> I see some of this self-consciousness role playing in some Michael's
> photographs.
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> Perhaps I wasn't clear on what I meant, so I hope this helps.
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> -Joel
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> On 6/30/2014 3:16 PM, James Morris wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Some photographs taken at the weekend
>> http://www.jwm-art.net/?p=preston_steam_2014
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>> Wasn't going to post here but afer I read Joel's comment about
>> Michael's photographs of street people: "Strange, for example, how
>> people look being themselves on a public street"
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>> I decided to post a link to mine for contrast...
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>> I'm not quite sure what Joel is suggesting as these people seem to me to
>> be themselves too, but they're far removed from a London street!?
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>> note: not all photographs have people in.
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>> Cheers,
>> James.
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