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Martyred — Lessons in Modernity
Published: 2006-02-28 19:24:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 201328003; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 202
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Scanned BW print on Kentmere paper. No touchup or photoshop.Taken with 6x6 TLR
I hope everyone likes it
. I am pretty happy with it.
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Comments: 49
Almost as if the shirt is telling him to "bow-down". Great image. Glad to see someone keen on film, you rock.
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In deed, in a sense that is what i was going for. thanks for the comment, I love my film
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yo! this is not simple at all! very complex and very powerful, yet very plain in comp.
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WOW! This should be a DD! 
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thanks
thanks
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The only thing I don't like about it is the thickness of the white border at the bottom.... the image itself is amazing and I love the fact that there is so much symbolism in your work (not just this piece). Definately a fav!
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Indeed, thanks for the compliment. On the white border: for this image all i did was place the darkroom print into a scanner, and since that is how it was on the paper, that is how it ended up.. Framed, it is not like that.
thanks again
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You're quite welcome. You are an extraordinary photographer with very unique creative designs and a lot of technical talent. I look forward to seeing a lot more amazing works from you.
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This is insanely brilliant. Surreal, very interesting. Great work!
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wonderful picture.
have a lot means, and i like such expression.
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wow.. very simple... but wow. there seems to be so much emotion in this!
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silently omniscient electricity.... a constant.... really really nice....
so are these set up in a gallery front or some sort of store front?
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no, no store front yet, after i finish this project i am working on i plan to go around to places and see if they will hang it and such. Hopefully they will go up, the mean a lot to me
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so where is this window and how are you using and displaying inside of it....?
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I am afraid i don't understand your question, could you say it in another way?
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Ill take a crack at the cord...
It can mean several things to me actually:
1) a symbol of electric dependency. Here is a man in the utter most state of primal simplicity, almost submissive before the line of electric power. Almost a slave to the power that guides so many of us,
2) It could also mean to me, the representation of passage and communication. Information is passed from point a to point b in a thin plastic tube filled with copper wire. Right before the primitive man is the generation x version of mass communication.
Anywho, pretty nice picture mr brandycakes.
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thanks much kev. A fav from you is always special.
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this just makes me go "wow"
then my brain explodes
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it's neat. it's obviously meaningful but also quickly digested (sybols of the trapped guy, the business dress, etc.). and there's just something cool about having a skinny naked guy with a shiny back. i think it remindsme of the matrix or something, but there is this humble human quality about it that is really cool. nicely done, my friend.
now we just need to start finding bay area jobs.
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thanks
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I'm gonna jump in with what I think this photo represents.
The shirt with no man in it but still pointing represents the faceless boss at work or a symbol of a corporation. The person, naked apart from the box on thier head represents the people and free thinking being trapped. Also as the shirt is higher than the person and they look in distress it's faceless boss/corperations surpressing the free thought of the people.
So going with the title it's the lesson that in modern life the faceless corperations are stifleing the people's thinking and trapping us.
Thats what it means to me anyway, could be completley off the mark though. Nicely done and good texture to the piece.
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Seems like your hittin in the realm of what i was going for, thanks for sharing BTW. But what, does the cord at the bottom mean?
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I'm still thinkin about that one, I'll let you know when it hits me.
hmmmm
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That is indeed a very interesting picture. I would usually find extras like that cord kind of distracting from the whole feeling of the image, but for this image it seems to fit in with the photo.
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yeah, and if you analyse the shit out of it, it isn't even extra, definetly put there on purpose haha. I am glad you find it interesting
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yea i really like how it is simple as well. and such a great idea.
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excellent. this is what devart needs more of. real expressivity. some stuff with content that poses a challenge for the viewer.
good job.
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thank you very much. I enjoyed you comment a lot.
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wierd for the sake of being wierd. but that expressionest art
i like it though. something id put up in my room
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Very nice, I like how it just looks so simple. Very great shot. (:
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