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Photographing chaos - Strategies?

Listen to Hendrik Andriessen's Miroir de Peine without knowing what it's about. Then read the titles of the movements. Listen to it again. Did the music change?
 
nikos79 said:
Yes but not having known all the pre-context (mental condition of her mother etc.) and viewing it as simple photographs without the added conceptual layer on top I doubt if that manages to bring anything.
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Each photograph stands on it own, alone and if it cannot do that, it then fails to gain interest in the eye of the viewer.
 
Sirius Glass said:
Each photograph stands on it own, alone and if it cannot do that, it then fails to gain interest in the eye of the viewer.
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That is way we like photography that is at least 50 years old. Then the context as been shaped into our collective knowledge. Though mostly without our explicit knowing.
 
Sirius Glass said:
Each photograph stands on it own, alone and if it cannot do that, it then fails to gain interest in the eye of the viewer.
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I agree, while also accepting the multitudes of exceptions...such as images in contexts not yet defined in our collective (and very limited) knowledge. Shows and photo books might have images that would not work standing alone, but successfully act as bridges between images. That sort of thing.
 
I don't have a particular strategy but I like what Shore was saying in principle. One of my favorite examples is The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz. There are maybe fifty people in the image, but there is also an underlying structure that divides the image into sections and makes you want to explore. Wonderful, wonderful.

When I'm out photographing chaotic situations that I can not control, I try to slow down and find the structure of the image first, and then just enjoy the people until something interesting happens.

Apologies if someone else has already mentioned The Steerage.

Alfred Stieglitz - The Steerage - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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I will walk through an area looking to compositions and photographing. Then if Anne is with me she will point out the compositions that she sees. Anne has been a docent at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan of Art for years and she has a great eye for compositions.
 
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