cat burglar

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited May 25, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
part series



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Neil
"Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

http://www.behance.net/brosepix

Comments

  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited May 23, 2012
    Interesting title for these photos. I'm pulled in by all each photo offers. Think #'s 2 and 5 hold my interest the longest. I see the 'key' shows up in each photo :D
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    Dogdots wrote: »
    Interesting title for these photos. I'm pulled in by all each photo offers. Think #'s 2 and 5 hold my interest the longest. I see the 'key' shows up in each photo :D

    Appreciate your comments Mary, thank you!

    The title got there in a round about way. These photos came into existence as a possible solution to an assignment at uni - how to get 20 good (enough) images on a single theme in 10 days! I looked at my desk and thought "Why not"? Also I had been carrying in the forefront of my photographer's brain the work of the Japanese Daido Moriyama that I had recently seen on the ASX website. If you know his images you will know how the way he processed the film gave them a high contrast extremely gritty tactileness (in b&w). Not a small proportion of his subjects are things to hand. So I set out to produce images with very ordinary subjects whose main reason for being was their sensuousness-tactileness, ie colour, contrast, grittiness. Characteristic Moriyama images also have a very dominating dark vignette. Emulating all those "Moriyama" things in my images gave them a nocturnal feel, personal things looked at in the light of an intruder's torch. I looked up the word for night burglar in Japanese (yatou) and made that the title, but of course it could be understood properly only with the information I have just given you - the Japanese connection, and the style of processing being the subject matter (as it typically is for Moriyama). I settled therefore on the present title.

    The key is just to "irritate" the viewer's eye, a visual tic, perhaps to add to the "instrusion" ambiance, to cause an ambivalence, since keys to a burglar are a fetish, what he/she fantasises finding, and keys are what we withhold in order to keep what is private private.

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    NeilL wrote: »
    Appreciate your comments Mary, thank you!

    The title got there in a round about way. These photos came into existence as a possible solution to an assignment at uni - how to get 20 good (enough) images on a single theme in 10 days! I looked at my desk and thought "Why not"? Also I had been carrying in the forefront of my photographer's brain the work of the Japanese Daido Moriyama that I had recently seen on the ASX website. If you know his images you will know how the way he processed the film gave them a high contrast extremely gritty tactileness (in b&w). Not a small proportion of his subjects are things to hand. So I set out to produce images with very ordinary subjects whose main reason for being was their sensuousness-tactileness, ie colour, contrast, grittiness. Characteristic Moriyama images also have a very dominating dark vignette. Emulating all those "Moriyama" things in my images gave them a nocturnal feel, personal things looked at in the light of an intruder's torch. I looked up the word for night burglar in Japanese (yatou) and made that the title, but of course it could be understood properly only with the information I have just given you - the Japanese connection, and the style of processing being the subject matter (as it typically is for Moriyama). I settled therefore on the present title.

    The key is just to "irritate" the viewer's eye, a visual tic, perhaps to add to the "instrusion" ambiance, to cause an ambivalence, since keys to a burglar are a fetish, what he/she fantasises finding, and keys are what we withhold in order to keep what is private private.

    Neil

    I've never seen the work of Daido Moriyama. I had to google him to check out his work. Interesting way in which he shoots or perceives what's around him. I see now what you had in mind and think you accomplished it beautifully.

    As for the title you were thinking of using .. 'Yatou' ... I think it's a good title. And properly fits for this series of shots.

    Great effort and job well done Neil. I look forward to seeing more of your creations :D
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    Dogdots wrote: »
    I've never seen the work of Daido Moriyama. I had to google him to check out his work. Interesting way in which he shoots or perceives what's around him. I see now what you had in mind and think you accomplished it beautifully.

    As for the title you were thinking of using .. 'Yatou' ... I think it's a good title. And properly fits for this series of shots.

    Great effort and job well done Neil. I look forward to seeing more of your creations :D

    Thanks for the encouragement Mary! Glad you got acquainted with Daido. There's so much out there these days to try to keep in touch of, but everything you see is a little push or a little nudge.:D

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    NeilL wrote: »
    Thanks for the encouragement Mary! Glad you got acquainted with Daido. There's so much out there these days to try to keep in touch of, but everything you see is a little push or a little nudge.:D

    Neil

    So true on the little push or little nudge. Just seeing what you did and then what Diado did .. well my mind has been churning all day :D
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    Dogdots wrote: »
    So true on the little push or little nudge. Just seeing what you did and then what Diado did .. well my mind has been churning all day :D

    :D


    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,325 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2012
    I tell you, Neil, you are easily the least predictable photographer on this forum. I'm never sure what your " attack angle " will be. I applaud you for your willingness to stretch out and explore new ideas and approaches.

    I like these shots and I really appreciate the background comments that give insight into their creation. Very nice work.

    Take care my friend,

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2012
    black mamba wrote: »
    ... the least predictable...

    haha!! maybe Tom, but I still feel painfully like a newbie, it's like a never-ending being 13yo!!

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
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