Alan Edward Klein
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Ok now I understand your point. It would have been clearer if I said. "How do you know when you have the best composition looking upside down?"
You were complaining about how the image being upside-down on the ground glass confuses you, and then you literally asked “How do you know when the best time to shoot (sic)?”
The point is that, at the time of exposure, you can’t see the image on the ground glass anyway. This applies in portraiture, landscapes, or whatever else you are pointing your view camera at. Turn the question around on yourself: How do you know “the best time to shoot” anything with a view camera? Now do you understand?
You are one of the few people here who tend to speak in universal declaratives, as if your subjective feelings and confusion apply to everyone. The statement “right-side up is best” is a perfect example of that. Progress is when one moves from assigning one’s own opinions to everyone to instead owning them as their own.
When I make a declarative statement, of course, it's my opinion.
Some people add IMO when they make a statement. That's redundant.
Henry Cartier-Bresson in Mississippi (early 60s) / Walker Evans in Mississippi (early 30s)
Only if you believe all declarative statements to be opinions, which is not the case.
"The Earth is round."
"The Earth is flat."
One is an opinion, the other one isn't.
One shouldn't confuse redundancy with clarity.
You're attacking me personally
Some people add IMO when they make a statement. That's redundant.
In The Europeans a few of HCB’s photos on this theme are captioned ‘First paid holidays’. I’m away from home so I can’t check whether this one is so captioned. But it’s hard for us today to comprehend what a big step in social history that provision was, and how recent.
Just to set the record straight, I am back home now, and the caption (in the edition I have) reads “On the banks of the Marne, 1938”.P.S. I just checked my HCB book "The Europeans" it is indeed been titled "The first paid holidays"
comment about the photo’s social significance stands.
Henry Cartier-Bresson in Mississippi (early 60s) / Walker Evans in Mississippi (early 30s)
Out of these two, I would say the one by Walker Evans is a better composition, assuming the second on is by Evans.
There's no reason to dispute the social significance or historic relevance but, on the face of it, the photo can be appreciated without knowing any of that. Added information doesn't make a naive interpretation inappropriate, even if it contradicts it.
someone suggested
I would say the one by Walker Evans is a better composition
Isn’t the HCB image saying something about race?
the WE may be one of his poorest pictures
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