And sadly, if you read through it, there are a bunch of the original participants who are either no longer here, or no longer on this earth.
Where did this thread come from some of the people haven't posted for thirteen years?
Matt, I had never seen this thread before but those were my thoughts as well. I recognised at least two people who are now deceased and others that I cannot recall seeing in many years. A little depressing in a way
How does anybody see a thread today that after 12-13 years must be "buried miles underground"? Just curious as to the actual mechanism that brings it to the surface again so to speak.
Thanks
pentaxuser
humor belongs everywhere; would be a sorry life without it.Recalling the recent thread about Aperture and how the current output of contemporary artists seem to depress some, and/or baffle others, I would like to ask the question: Can a photograph be funny AND be a work of art at the same time? I stand on the ground that a photograph can be a work of art, but I could not for the longest time think of having ever laughed during an exhibition. Many great photographs are contemplative, touching, moving, provocating, but which of them make you laugh? Have you ever peed your pants watching a great print? If not, why would laughter be evacuated from the range of emotions that good photography and art in general should convey to their viewers? Is it even possible to tell a joke with a picture?
James Joyce is one of my favorite author not jut because I'm a geek and actually bother to follow the arcane details of his writing, but also because he's so damn funny while being a brilliant writer at the same time. Great satirists like Swift, Sterne (also Irishmen, come to think of it), Voltaire, Dickens can be hilarious, but writing and other narrative art have the benefit of temporality, which is often essential to buildup a situation leading to a punch. Photography is not essentially temporal, though you may appreciate separate elements of the picture in a succession ("diachronically" if you will) rather than simultaneously ("synchronically"). I presume it is harder to create a reaction like laughter, that needs a buildup, with a medium in which everything is visible at once. However, I stand convinced of the humorous expressive power of pictures after having seen a great photo spread of the Little Britain actors in UK Vogue last month (for those foreign to the series, LB is a BBC sketch comedy act figuring various impersonations of British type characters).
So who laughs in the museums?
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How does anybody see a thread today that after 12-13 years must be "buried miles underground"? Just curious as to the actual mechanism that brings it to the surface again so to speak.
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mine all have rakes to step onThe real question is whether John's "Similar Threads" list is unlike anyone else's list here!
I remember those pictures. Philippe Halsman was one of my favorites. He took my favorite portrait of Jean Simmons with a Rollei (at least that's what Rollei said in the book I bought on how to use a Rollei). ......Regards!Cannot believe no one has yet mentioned Philippe Halsman. His "Dali Atomicus" made me laugh the instant I saw it, over 50 years ago.
What inspired that photo and the day-long process it took to produce it is quite a story.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Salvador_Dali_A_(Dali_Atomicus)_09633u.jpg
Humor is very tricky when sharing it with people in other places. A funny joke here in the USA is almost never funny in Germany, England, France. A Texas A&M Aggie joke that is funny all over Texas and most of Louisiana falls flat in Germany. I know, I've tried and I see no reason to think a funny photograph would be any different. How many "funny" paintings have any of you seen?......Regards!humor belongs everywhere; would be a sorry life without it.
...A funny joke here in the USA is almost never funny in Germany ...
Reminds me of a line in “99 Dead Baboons,” Tim Cavanagh translated the German song to English and one of the lines he wasn’t sure of was... “What a happy snorkeling device”That's because the USA joke doesn't reference a snorkeling device.
Reminds me of a line in “99 Dead Baboons,” Tim Cavanagh translated the German song to English and one of the lines he wasn’t sure of was... “What a happy snorkeling device”
I didn't mean to pick on just Germans. Outside of some Monty Python humor, have any in this group living in the U.S. and maybe even in Canada ever found English humor funny?.......Regards!....Other than some Alec Guiness (sp) movies, that is?That's because the USA joke doesn't reference a snorkeling device.
Regularly. However, just as in Canadian humour and USA humour, some of it I find funny, some of it I find unfunny, and some of it I can't understand at all.I didn't mean to pick on just Germans. Outside of some Monty Python humor, have any in this group living in the U.S. and maybe even in Canada ever found English humor funny?.......Regards!....Other than some Alec Guiness (sp) movies, that is?
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