image of the day // 002.

[tussah]

Comments

[stutterbird]

i like how their legs are at the exact same angle in almost every aspect-- the stride, the bend of their back feet, the straightness of the front legs.

it reminds me of when i was little, and when i walked with my friends, i always tried to match their stride.

[tussah]

I know exactly what you mean! I would do the same thing, with our arms linked and everything.

[attilatehbun]

I kind of love that you are doing this? I mean, besides the fact that it's nice having pretty pictures that I otherwise might not have seen show up on my flist, I quite like your analysis. :) I tend to react to images (photographs, paintings, the like) on a very visceral level, so I always appreciate looking at it from the other side.

Personally, my eye keeps getting drawn to the perfectly synchronized steps. It's very captivating, the way even their back feet are almost exactly aligned, with even the same curve of the foot and the height of the shoes' heels. I just love the structure of that.

[tussah]

I'm glad! You have no idea how much vague paranoia of the "homg they are all going to defriend me cause I keep spamming random pictures to their friendslist" variety i kind of get about all of this. But beyond taking pictures, I also really enjoy collecting them, finding new ones, all of that jazz, so I suppose giving some meeting beyond memes and random fandom stuff to this blog isn't necessarily a bad thing, yeah? i hopeA lot of the times, I also just sort of emotionally respond to a photograph, but years of schooling and almost becoming an art historian have me always stepping back and then trying to qualify it, pull it apart and understand it. In the end, I think it ends up just helping me understand how to make better 'art' or whatever, as well. And I have to agree with what you're responding to, it's true, in particular for me, those back feet -- which was something I actually didn't notice until I started doing a small write up. But there is something about how their legs have that repetition, which I think also plays off

[rabidfangirlism]

WHY ARE YOU SPAMMING ME WITH YOUR DUMB PICTURES. *DEFRIENDS*

8D

[riko]

I like your point about how they anchor the picture! When I click the cut, I only get the top half of the city's skyline, and it was strange to see you (whose taste in photography I admire) posting something that, in those first few seconds, seemed sort of lacklustre? And then I scrolled down and saw the girls, and the whole picture was transformed. The strangeness of looking at pictures on the internet!

I also like that because of how strange and yet not strange it is for fashion photography. You'd think that the fashion would be front and centre not small and at the bottom, dominated in size, at least, by the city. But there's also no question that the women and their clothes are the centre of attention here. I think it's really interesting how they can take up such a small part of the surface area in the photo and yet still be, by far, its most striking part.

[tussah]

yeah, i was doing a little reading about some of the photographers who were working around this time, and it was about this period where the idea of mis-en-scene sort of working "at odds" with the actual fashion presented. that fashion photoshoots became a lot less about clothes. model. period. and more about that models in a settling that is equally interesting (and therefore quasidistracting or counterbalancing) the prominence of the clothes, accessories, etc that they're wearing. it's kind of neat -- at least, i think so -- to see how photography in its various manifestations (portraiture, fashion photography, photojournalism) has evolved, and so yeah i thought that little tidbit also, when taken in context, makes the image something interesting to look at and consider too.