How Silence Can Change Your Photography.

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @TatianaHopper
    @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +15

    Thank you so much for watching everyone and supporting the channel.
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  • @crashly1000
    @crashly1000 2 місяці тому +14

    Hi Tatiana, in a sea of boring images, technical drivel, self promotion and self seeking proponents of fine art photography you are a rare shining light. Your honesty, insight and obvious true love of photography in all its aspects and genres is a breath of fresh air. I have been a commercial and find art photographer for over 50 years so my bullshit radar is on high alert . Well done, and keep up the good work.

  • @louhautdavid6451
    @louhautdavid6451 2 місяці тому +2

    I've been thinking a lot about Robert Adams who's one of my main references. Your analysis in terms of silence is really helpful to me. It fits perfectly with the sense of contemplation that emerge with his photographs. I also never thought about the idea of duality that helps me even more to understand his works. So thanks a lot.

  • @Hilldee64
    @Hilldee64 2 місяці тому +1

    My first time watching one of your videos and I’m hooked already. Wonderfully informative and entertaining, and an absolute pleasure to see Robert Adam’s work.

  • @michaelcarrithers6811
    @michaelcarrithers6811 Місяць тому

    Thanks for reminding me of Robert Adams, and for reminding me so well of his central practice/work. And thank you especially for showing some of your own work, which sits so neatly alongside his. More!

  • @forewarnedfilm
    @forewarnedfilm 2 місяці тому +1

    For me, one of the biggest components of Silence in Adams' work is from the acute emptiness generated by the lack of people in many of his photos. Even in a still image, the presence of people has an accompanying 'sound' to it - a bustle, a hum, even a pulsing throb (in the case of a city). In Adams' images, the people are conspicuous by their absence. We see all of the fingerprints of human activity - houses, road signs, a parked car, a diner booth, a playground - but all are devoid of humans. A Marie Celeste landscape as if the Rapture had taken everyone moments before. What we are left with is a haunting, liminal landscape - and the ghost-like traces of those who were there before. Powerful, resonant work.

  • @simonbnyc
    @simonbnyc 2 місяці тому +4

    I still remember seeing Robert Adams' "The New West" for the first time back in 1977 and it completely changed everything for me. It was indeed the "silence" of his images that resonated with me.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Glad you have a similar view of his work, thank you so much for watching Simon!

  • @fafnorcal
    @fafnorcal 2 місяці тому

    Well done summary and a cogent lesson on Adams' use of silence. I, too, am an admirer of Robert Adams work and have collected many of his monographs. In a day when so much landscape photography seems to depend on the saturation slider, Adams work is refreshing contrast. Over time, I've come to appreciate his ability to tell an important story through his collected images. He has few "greatest hits" that one would place over the fireplace but each of his monographs tells a significant and thoughtful story. I also have the greatest respect and admiration for the way he and his wife have dedicated their lives to bringing us such a contemplative view of the American West, its grandeur and fragility, and our impact on it.

  • @fernandosocorro4175
    @fernandosocorro4175 2 місяці тому +1

    Yep. I think if we can convey our Zen experience during the full process of making photos, then our "silence" of the soul becomes a shared gift.
    Great video

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Agreed, thanks you for watching Fernando!

  • @bnrynlds
    @bnrynlds 2 місяці тому +9

    I think Todd Hido embraces the silence very well too.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Completely agree actually I should have made mention to the video I made about Todd Hido in this video (I address silence, ambiguity and liminal spaces if I remember correctly on that one).

  • @toine1915
    @toine1915 2 місяці тому

    Hello, Tatiana.
    Great video about a more than great photographer.
    From the previous words you can already tell that I am a big fan of Robert Adams.
    The simplicity with which he wanted to make clear the pace at which the USA was changing is sublime.
    Trees in particular had a great attraction for him.
    This is very clear in the interviews he gave.
    The influence of his lovely wife in compiling his books is also something I really appreciate in him.
    That is why I am so grateful to you for this video.
    A sincere friendly greeting from the Netherlands,
    Antoine.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so much for your feedback Toine, all the best to you!

  • @bsmukler
    @bsmukler 2 місяці тому

    Wow! This was so thoughtfully conceived and brilliantly done. It strikes me that the shared silence in photography, that suggests an appreciation of what the photographer was thinking, is akin to that wonderful mental itch we experience through comedy: We feel and appreciate the writer’s or comedian’s thought process, and recognize something of ourselves in it. And of course the two (photography and wonderful humor) sometimes coincide, as in some of Elliott Erwitt’s work [The “Lost Persons Area” comes to mind]. Some of the images here also remind me of your piece on Jason Lee.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you so much! I appreciate your thoughts and actually I agree on the link with Jason Lee’s work. Best!

    • @bsmukler
      @bsmukler 2 місяці тому

      Best to you as well Tatiana!

  • @bradleyspann9837
    @bradleyspann9837 2 місяці тому

    As always another thoughtful and well written episode, thank you. I have a suggestion for an episode, how a particular photographer handled photographing one subject. For instance Bert Stern and Marylin Monroe. Just a thought. Keep up the great work.

  • @annahamiltonphotography186
    @annahamiltonphotography186 2 місяці тому

    perfect soundtrack too-loved this, thanks

  • @plannerjohn
    @plannerjohn 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for another provocative video. It’s well timed as I’m on the tail end of a trip across West Texas with my father to visit and photograph old family touchpoints (homes, graves, etc). Silence is both a literal and artistic choice that resonates at the moment. Will have to revisit Adams once I’m home.

  • @ghostdragon9221
    @ghostdragon9221 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank You Tatiana, wonderful video. I love learning. Have a wonderful week.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you so much, you too have a great week!

  • @JoeJoe4P
    @JoeJoe4P 2 місяці тому

    Hi Tatiana. I loved this video. The essence of silence. You presented it beautifully. Black and white, quiet. The full frame/page telling the story. Less is more. Thank you for presenting this. I was not familiar with Adam’s work, but love what he does. I hope all is well. God bless🙏✌️📷

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so much my friend, hope all is well with you and you've recovered well. God bless!

  • @donyee8970
    @donyee8970 2 місяці тому

    Thanks Tatiana for a wonderful video. Silence is important to me because it's room for my thoughts. In the music of life, the notes are just as important as the space between the notes which is silence.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Very poetic comment, thank you for watching and leaving your thoughts I appreciate it!

  • @mid90s75
    @mid90s75 2 місяці тому

    Another great video, I really appreciate your insight as much as I appreciate Robert Adams photography! Best!

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so much for watching!

    • @mid90s75
      @mid90s75 2 місяці тому

      @@TatianaHopper maybe do one on Joel Sterneld another of my heroes! I think you’d love his images.

  • @anguyen800
    @anguyen800 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for giving me a new direction when I thought I am stuck in a rut with no way out in the era of AI and all that . Yes , the spirit of photography is still Silence , but it does speak a volume . When I see the scene with no people , my mind start thinking of the story behind that .

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so muck Ann! I really appreciate it!

  • @daviddrex9750
    @daviddrex9750 2 місяці тому

    Another excellent video thank you very much. I was wondering if you could have more videos of photographers that are not well known thank you very much. Keep up the good work.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      I’m sure I’ll come out with more as I find out about more photographers! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel. Ps - I actually have a video in the pipeline about another photographer that’s been quite overlooked!

  • @diegoski345
    @diegoski345 Місяць тому

    Im super lost in my photographer journey. i start doin some moriyama things..then i stop and do two paid portrait sessions..and name myself a portrait photographer..but now im so lost in my life i just want this silent pictures. thanks tatiana

  • @angloitalo
    @angloitalo 2 місяці тому +1

    Wasn't Robert Adams in a group show of that era called The New Topographics? You always produce intelligent and thoughtful videos.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Yes I believe he was. You’re correct!

  • @sebastiangatto1290
    @sebastiangatto1290 2 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for another top- notch video and the lessons imparted.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +2

      Thank you so much for watching Sebastian!

  • @inhaler97
    @inhaler97 2 місяці тому +1

    Thinking about time and Robert Adams "What We Bought" also uses this time and light in his work, especially when heading into interiors of strip malls and industrial buildings, then heading back out to the distance, in the darkness. Im not sure, but Eden was probably pre-"What We Bought" or along the same time line, but his use of slow/silence, is present in both, and more!

  • @narelle4868
    @narelle4868 2 місяці тому

    Always insightful Tatiana, thankyou.

  • @stephenroberts7828
    @stephenroberts7828 2 місяці тому

    Excellent work T

  • @DarthGold
    @DarthGold 2 місяці тому

    Love watching this channel, especially you

  • @TheNitebinder
    @TheNitebinder 2 місяці тому

    Never heard of photographer Robert Adams. However I do find his photographs about southwest very interesting. I was stationed near Barstow California from 1983 to 1984. Adams was able to capture the vastness and the man made structures and environments needed to survive out there. Although most photographers just compose and snap the shutter then wait to find another subject. For others, it's a time to reflect and/or meditate when studying the location before capturing an image or a series of images.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      That’s a great way of putting it, I lack the perhaps cultural and spatial context to have a more deeper understanding of Robert Adams work but still I think of it in a similar way that you described there - meditative and reflective qualities. Thank you so much for watching!

  • @christianholzknecht
    @christianholzknecht 2 місяці тому

    I got the book on my table and I love it a lot ❤

  • @caw25sha
    @caw25sha 2 місяці тому +1

    I think every photograph has subliminal instructions within it telling our minds what soundtrack to generate from our own experiences. Traffic, talking, music, the wind, and of course silence.

  • @genehilmu8189
    @genehilmu8189 2 місяці тому

    Wonderful job as always ❤

  • @dead.lisi4ka
    @dead.lisi4ka 2 місяці тому

    Really loved this one, thank you

  • @adventuresofjandk
    @adventuresofjandk 2 місяці тому

    Another fantastic video

  • @rfw3studio
    @rfw3studio 2 місяці тому

    Nice video - Silence at its best. Less is always more.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Less is more 100%, thank you so much for watching.

  • @pakomakk3944
    @pakomakk3944 2 місяці тому

    Your content is amazing, congrats 🤘🏻👊🏻👊🏻

  • @dangilmore9724
    @dangilmore9724 2 місяці тому +12

    Robert Adam's images have a very "liminal" quality. Some of the images are, for lack of a better word, unsettling. There's a "loneliness" to the Images. It's almost like people should be in the images, but they aren't they are there, but not at that particular time.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +4

      I think the ambiguity in his work really adds another layer of interest and I find that it’s also a key to understanding his “commenting” or ideas behind his images.

    • @dangilmore9724
      @dangilmore9724 2 місяці тому

      @TatianaHopper It's also a sense of "there's something going on here' and what that is is deliberately left to the viewer.

  • @billgreen1140
    @billgreen1140 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for the quality content.

  • @thomashilmersen711
    @thomashilmersen711 2 місяці тому

    A lot of Robert Adams' work reflects the emptiness of the area where he was. But I think you could show silence and emptiness even in the big cities, perhaps at night or from high up in a tall building. Or maybe both ... the lone light in a highrise office building at night, the analyst working at 3am, while the rest of the city sleeps.

  • @jamesmonte9214
    @jamesmonte9214 2 місяці тому

    Great video Tatiana👍

  • @Youssefbensaoud
    @Youssefbensaoud 2 місяці тому

    Amazing

  • @artivism4068
    @artivism4068 2 місяці тому

    "reconcile us to life"❤

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      I read that at first I knew I had to include that in the video! Thanks for watching.

  • @carlwarrenphoto
    @carlwarrenphoto 2 місяці тому

    My evening watch ,thank you

  • @VictorReynolds
    @VictorReynolds 2 місяці тому

    Silence is an important theme in photography. It challenges us as photographers to step away from the business of our world and focus on those often forgotten places.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Agreed Victor, thanks for sharing your perspective!

  • @JCarlos.unknown
    @JCarlos.unknown 2 місяці тому

    There's a great book by Robert Adams: "Beauty in photography" (published by Aperture).

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому

      Is it a book of essays? Thank you for the suggestion!

  • @WhiskyLock
    @WhiskyLock 2 місяці тому

    Thank you 👍

  • @scotskinner4350
    @scotskinner4350 2 місяці тому

    I borrowed Robert Adams book "American Silence" from the library.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Awesome I need to check that one!

  • @skinthekat0530
    @skinthekat0530 2 місяці тому

    The destruction of Oregon old growth forests was a dominant theme in Robert Adam's West.

  • @ThePurpleHarpoon
    @ThePurpleHarpoon 2 місяці тому

    Is there such a thing as a 'great' photograph?
    I can think of interesting photographs, but I can't think of a great one.

  • @dansuzukiphotography
    @dansuzukiphotography 2 місяці тому

    I think Fred Herzog's photographs are very "silent".

  • @ANDRE4
    @ANDRE4 2 місяці тому

    Olá Taitiana, muitos parabéns pelo vídeo.
    É um excelente vídeo com fotografias (tuas) muito interessantes agradecendo-te desde já pela tua determinação na criação de um bom conteúdo informativo e reflexivo sobre fotografia, sendo eu já um subscritor teu há imenso tempo.
    Considero extremamente interessante e importante continuar a documentar a paisagem lusitana em película levando assim mais a sério aquilo que enquadramos e quebrando o paradigma das fotografias clichês dos "instastories" e publicações do "Instagram" que estamos tão sobrelotados.
    Espero que continues com o excelente trabalho e gostaria de ver um vídeo teu onde se fala bom Português, sendo isto uma sugestão ;)
    Despeço-me com os mais cordiais cumprimentos de Guimarães, Portugal.

    • @TatianaHopper
      @TatianaHopper  2 місяці тому +1

      Continuarei a trabalhar e capturar imagens da paisagem Portuguesa com todo o gosto. Um dia farei um vídeo (aliás eu fiz um vídeo para membros onde falei do grande trabalho do Artur Pastor embora que em inglês, acabei por falar muito de Portugal). Obrigada por ver os vídeos e apoiar o canal!

  • @danielguiomar4224
    @danielguiomar4224 2 місяці тому

    🎉❤

  • @Phoyographer
    @Phoyographer 2 місяці тому

    Tatiana...enter Islam and success

  • @joeeley5354
    @joeeley5354 2 місяці тому

    I like your video but I dislike MPB.

  • @liauchungren848
    @liauchungren848 2 місяці тому

    Don't tell me you're grand daughter of Edward Hopper.