Thursday, February 21, 2008
Equivalents
The pictures of errie snow I posted earlier (and some readers' reactions) made me think it was time to mention American photographer Minor White. He took Stieglitz's concept of "equivalents" and made it his own, developing images of the mundane but were made special through natural lighting. It's hard to touch on this in depth, but he felt that certain images would bring "recognition" to viewers. He even encouraged students to meditate and "experience" his photographs, rather than merely view them. Read a bit more on him at the usual source or read his own essay on the subject. For now you can merely experience and perhaps meditate on these errie and wonderful images of everyday items.
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11 comments:
It's quite interesting how natural decay has been beautified here...
I love photography, and I've studied its history, it's so interesting, Stieglitz was really a big photographer! this pics really remind me his!
those pictures really are special.
they feel as if you could look at them for hours just like out of the window.
These remind me of Annie Leibovitz first pictures - i'm sure you know her too.
Just from changing the picture sizes on my computer each of them look quite different..
I love these and are somewhat place in in a more contemplative frame of mind as you begin to wonder what beauty is. Is the last one meant to be almost surreal? I can almost see a face.
I have this weakness for black and white pictures, they're so delicate and classy.
I love that now you're including more photography posts (;
♥
I meditated on the paint peeling photo and I realized it reminded me of how flaky and dry my skin is right now.
Gotta go apply some lotion!
hmm. Eerie
Those take me back to my college days. Thanks for reminding me about him! I'm living vicariously through you now.
i love the depth of these images...also, i really like stieglitz's work, so these are similar and also very good...
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