Comments | hirez: A la recherche du tramps perdu

hirez

A la recherche du tramps perdu

Jun 25, 2006 19:16

Lomography.(Contains shoddy negative cutting, poor-quality scans, persons who may recognise themselves and thus never speak to me again where that would be bad, socialist-unrealist landscapes, LC-A behaviour from the XA2, demonstrations of camera-lobbing, persons who may recognise themselves and thus never speak to me again where I would be quite ( Read more... )

lomo, super 8, graveyard comedy

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gaius_octavian June 25 2006, 18:22:27 UTC

This is great stuff - somewhere, it's always 1950 in East Germany.

hirez June 25 2006, 20:10:13 UTC

Ta very kindly. It's odd how many of the Whitby ones came out. A couple manage to sort-of convey the noise and density of people. A couple almost work like still lives.

reddragdiva June 26 2006, 10:48:08 UTC

Yes, those are fantastic.

quercus June 26 2006, 08:55:19 UTC

I like the Kodachrome colours. Very 1960s

neilh June 25 2006, 18:29:39 UTC

By some quirk of fate one of the smoothing caps on this lappy has died lending a stripy blue halo to everything...somehow those pictures have captured faraway destinations from my youth, the dream holidays I never had.

hirez June 25 2006, 20:11:29 UTC

Yes. Exactly so.

hazeii June 25 2006, 19:54:39 UTC

Woolacombe bay, seen from the hill above Mortehoe.

hirez June 25 2006, 20:11:45 UTC

Oh, well spotted.

kathbad June 25 2006, 20:31:37 UTC

Coo! A picture of me I really like (OK so it is not all of me, but nonetheless...)

Thank you.

(Mind if I try to icon-ise it?)

hirez June 25 2006, 21:49:11 UTC

I'm very glad you like it. I faffed with the original for Quite Some Time, convinced you'd hate it.

On one hand, it's objectifying someone. On the other, I think it's a strangely powerful and kinetic image.

Please, icon-furtle away

jendama June 25 2006, 20:50:34 UTC

hirez June 25 2006, 21:57:55 UTC

Thank you.

I guess it's a reaction to the majority of the Whitby photography that happens. A set of it is standard fetish/modelling - most people involved seem happy with that. Another set is flash-photographed drunk people having a red-eyed laugh - again, most people involved seem happy with that.

I've been at the photographed end of both types and it's not something I'm keen on. (I need to expand on this because it leads off in a direction that's not strictly true, and People Who Model may read this and begin to think I'm bagging on them, which would be a particularly incorrect conclusion to leap in a single bound.)