Care to share the story behind it?
Exactly! This on the other hand is raising questions I can look at it again and again.
And I heard the story behind it and is not what someone might think.
Care to share the story behind it?
If I remember well the girl was caught looking at a balloon
I asked because this particular picture has always fascinated me but was unaware that HCB ever commented on it.
Funny, that. The title of the photo comes from an interlude in Frederick Delius’ opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, and seems comprehensively inappropriate. During said interlude, a pair of lovers - trapped in a village of feuding families - walk to a run-down pub called ‘The Paradise Garden’ for a last drink before drowning themselves!W. Eugene Smith practically lived off sales of prints of that Walk to Paradise Garden photo.
Funny, that. The title of the photo comes from an interlude in Frederick Delius’ opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, and seems comprehensively inappropriate. During said interlude, a pair of lovers - trapped in a village of feuding families - walk to a run-down pub called ‘The Paradise Garden’ for a last drink before drowning themselves!
Maybe ‘interpretation’ is the wrong word, and ‘understanding’ a better one. If you’ll play along with that, how do you (personally) understand the HCB Misissippi photo? Is it possible to appreciate it without understanding it? Even if it’s ambiguous, that would mean that at least two alternative ways of understanding suggest themselves.
I already agreed with you, Matt - I didn't even say unintelligible - I said "unreadable", by which I meant reading them is unpleasant (partly due to the repetition and the definitions and fixed references). I took a Philosophy of Law senior seminar course in university taught by a lawyer who didn't understand that that way of writing was not an appropriate model for speaking to a room full of students. Everyone was so bored they wanted to hang either him or themselves just to end it.
He's doing far better than every other famous photographer people can think of, then. Almost all of them are known for only a handful of photos. W. Eugene Smith practically lived off sales of prints of that Walk to Paradise Garden photo. Well, that and pawning cameras and lenses....
What does having only 100 or so famous pictures say about getting the decisive moment when HCB shot 100's of thousands? Most of them were meh, just like ours.
What does having only 100 or so famous pictures say about getting the decisive moment when HCB shot 100's of thousands? Most of them were meh, just like ours.
Do you have 100 of similar calibre to HCB’s?
What does having only 100 or so famous pictures say about getting the decisive moment when HCB shot 100's of thousands? Most of them were meh, just like ours.
I took a Philosophy of Law senior seminar course in university taught by a lawyer who didn't understand that that way of writing was not an appropriate model for speaking to a room full of students. Everyone was so bored they wanted to hang either him or themselves just to end it.
What does having only 100 or so famous pictures say about getting the decisive moment when HCB shot 100's of thousands? Most of them were meh, just like ours.
I took a Philosophy of Law senior seminar course in university taught by a lawyer who didn't understand that that way of writing was not an appropriate model for speaking to a room full of students. Everyone was so bored they wanted to hang either him or themselves just to end it.
If I remember well the girl was caught looking at a balloon
That is not my understanding, as I heard that it is a boy (not girl) who threw his ball in the air and Henri has framed the shot to exclude the ball.
That is not my understanding, as I heard that it is a boy (not girl) who threw his ball in the air and Henri has framed the shot to exclude the ball.
That would be tragicFunny, after following this thread from the beginning I'm starting to lose my appreciation of HCB.
Where did you hear that?
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