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RE: Abstract photography - stage #2
Thank you, @rut-ru!
Your approach to the disclosure of the topic is very interesting.
In my opinion, you mean the average snapshot. But the first one doesn't seem abstract to me either. However, this triptych speaks about the search and the final photo was quite successful.
Yes, you understood me correctly. This series is more like an illustration of a thought. The second shot is obvious from the connection with the viewer. The first... maybe. Most likely, the pictures could be arranged in the sequence 2,1,3 to see how the connection with the object weakens and is completely lost.
This is a very interesting thesis to me since I cannot follow it.
The connection between viewer and object can only weaken - so my own hypothesis - if the viewer is ready for this step. And if so, then is the question: can the photographer decide in which way the connection has to be broken? Or is this decision also the viewer's?
Apparently, the photographer must first do his work in this direction. Then he is not responsible for anything. The willingness of the viewer to see something of his own or the author's... it's unpredictable. Everything is in the hands and mind of the viewer :)
Is it so unpredictable? Our expert @llll1lll accurately determined my choice.
But you're right, I'm mostly kinesthetic, I can feel where my gaze stops. When I look at an image, there are three spaces for me (as if I'm looking out of a room through a window).
If my gaze stops before the border, then this is what it is - abstraction.
;-))
But as you know - this might have been by chance, and as you also surely know: expertism is no prove at all.
;-))
Wow! Very well said, imho.
For me, everyone who deals with art professionally is a significant expert :)
To nice to be true.
;-)
Define "professional(ly". Define "significant"!
I read: there are some experts who are not significant. That is: I don'nt have to listen to them?
I read: Bying and selling products of art would make me a professional - and hence a significant expert?
I'm quite sure to have misunderstood your saying...
Okay, to be honest: I even hope to have you misunderstood!
;-)
Of course, my opinion is subjective, because I am an amateur.
And - yes, there are problems of translation, they greatly distort the thought.
I'll try again though:
A professional is a specialist deeply immersed in a topic, possibly having an education in this area.
Significant - the one whose opinion has weight (for me in the first place). For example, as a doctor in medicine))
This is a prejudice, isn't it?
Dare to know! (Kant)
As I just asked the author - which criteria did you use for this?
I can feel some differences between the pictures, and I would say the third one is the most decorative one. But it seems not yet convincing to me this photo to regard as the most "abstract" one.
By the way, the photos all three together be taken as one work (triptych) seems me to be a very good idea and approach!