Why Does This Haunting Photography Hit Me So Hard?
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One of the most "refreshing" take-home messages is your emphasis that liking a person's photographic style does not necessarly mean one would be comfortable with reproducing it. About photographers I like: maybe also more "quiet" ones, definitely Michael Kenna (wouldn't he be a good topic for a video). Here on youtube (aside of yours, of course) the travel photography of Mitchell Kanashkevitch, which I enjoy. And could never emulate.
Regarding the parallels to Wes Anderson, I highly recommend looking into his name sake Roy Andersson, whose visual style is very similar.
I've been photographing a wide variety of subject matter off and on for more than 50 years and have never consciously tried to develop a "style." In fact I am not sure I've ever even given it much thought. So imagine my surprise when folks viewing my images in social media make comments like I knew this was your photo the minute I looked at it." As you pointed out in this podcast someone's "style" really consists of who they are and how they view the world. Attempts at "creating" a style often consist of emulating how someone else views the world and anyone following that path almost inevitably winds up going down the wrong path.
I noticed there's a shift towards blown out, pastel coloured wedding photography. Have you got a view on this? and are there any other wedding photography trends you have seen that are worth making a video about?
I love her work. The images may not be geometrically symmetrical, but they are visually balanced. To impose geometric symmetry you'd have to remove bits of the envoronments - plants, signs, changes in walls, and the images would lose terribly.
Hi Alex. Is the title of your post correct??? Maybe she also takes photos of Soviet swimming pools (I don't know), but she's Slovak! On her website: Each of them pictures a different pool, usually built in the Socialist Era, in various locations in Slovakia. Your title is a bit misleading. Besides I like your chanel - and her photos as well.
Hi Alex. UA-cam channel 212 Studio has a 10 question interview with Maria if you are interested 😀
This is why I like this channel - discovering new people and their work. A few years ago I discovered the work of Lana Slezik, check out her book "Forsaken: Afghan Women"
I really like the Dutch photographer Alex Timmermans. His serie called ‘storytelling’ is so full of fantasy and humor. As a teacher I like to tell stories to the children in my classroom. That’s why I find his work quite inspirational.
I love the photography in the I Spy books. It makes me feel the way these photos were described by Alex, melancholy and nostalgia.
Maria's work is beautiful. The Communistic feel is definately there, but the old fashioned look takes me back to the late 50's early 60's in Melbourne, as a kid catching the smelly old box body diesel bus to the baths on Batman Ave Melbourne, now long gone.
I like the photographs by Svarbova, but I'm not a fan of the way they're processed.
Thanks for anothsr great video! Do you know what happened to the Weekly Imogen channel? It had some great pool photography,
"There isn't a nostalgia filter", yet I can't help but feel that this is precisely what people think they're doing when they apply film profiles to their digital image, or buy 'retro' look cameras that sacrifice ergonomics and features for hipster appeal.
Those photos look so quintessentially Soviet. So aseptic , restrained, austere and yet you can just feel the tension in them .
Remarkable photographer and a very inspiring video thank you.
I simply love Maria’s work, those swimming pool photographs really resonate with me. I am reminded of my youth when I was really into and performing gymnastics where the gymnasts from former Soviet block were at the top of their game and something to aspire to. I’m thinking of the likes of Olga Korbut, I was keen to learn how and where they trained and that slightly austere soviet-like environment really came through. 🙏🏻
are you good? its been long time no update video? i hope you well...
too clinical and aseptic for me. She removed the esssence of human beings: pain and joy
Oooh, I love the colors and compositions. I also like that I wore similar swimwear in my youth and I can smell the chlorine in those pictures. For me the photos evoke the joy that I found in swimming. The emotion is coming from my personal connection to the images.
@@mudswallow5074 Ok good for you. Im a former swimmer. I only remember each of the tiles in the pool and their cracks
Excellent video; thanks! I love your image of the Kelpies!
So long without new content. We miss it!
Absolutely Wes Anderson
I love the concept of 'Future Retro'. One of the best I like is the 'Future Retro Mickey' (Mouse) by the artist Sorayama. Look it up it's wonderful ❤
Alex - If you enjoy these you would probably appreciate Christopher Herwig's 2-volume set on Soviet bus stops. He also has a great book focused on Soviet metro stations.
I thoroughly enjoyed this segment. Such stunning, nostalgic photos.
The subject of finding one's own voice in their photography is one I am struggling with currently: which camera/ format, which film stock, B&W or color, which genre (currently urban landscape vs. rural landscape vs. wild places), etc.
The are some many photographers whose work I enjoy, including yours Alex. Taking a much needed break from from photography, I lost who I was as a photographer, and I am trying new things to regain my voice. Looking at different perspectives of the photos of others help to shape what my mind's eye sees with camera in hand. Both the journey and destination.
Cheers.
Nice discussion! I am growing my list of favorite photographers. I recently discovered Allan Markman who photographs amazing mini-sculpures that combine rusted metal parts and natural objects.
I tend to like photos that are something I could never take or even think to take. I like such a variety, it's easier to point out the few I don't really care for. In the photo classes I've taken, as well as videos I watch, I make bookmark lists of photographers that we learn about or that other students mention they like, so I can refer back to them. I've probably only been exposed to a small percentage of photographers, even though there's about a couple of hundred on my lists.
One photographer I didn't like at first, but came to appreciate because of his subject, is Alexander Gronsky. One of his projects is capturing the same architecture that was copied in other cities. It blew my mind that that exists, and seems to be common in Russia. You could go to another city and find the same looking street and apartments and stores.
Looking at these photos reminds me of East German postage stamps. They had flat graphic design with muted monochromatic colors, and the featured people in a "heroic worker" pose.
I'm really drawn to the work of Ernst Hass. I've tried some slow shutter photography in his style. I can tell you this from that experiment. My world is not as colorful as his was; the city, the buses, the taxis, the cars... I did have an idea come to me for some slow shutter speed photography in the city center I haven't tried yet.
Thanks forvpresenting me Marias work. They are inspiring. I was also catch by your thougths about the vice of a photograther. I will think alot to know my.
I recently posted about this nostalgia (in relation to film photography), through the lens of Schopenhauer. "Schopenhauer’s philosophy sheds light on the paradoxical nature of nostalgia. While it offers a comforting retreat into the past, it also serves as a poignant reminder of life’s transience and the inevitability of change." [...] "Schopenhauer speaks of the fleeting nature of human happiness, likening it to a “soap bubble” that bursts upon contact with reality. This poignant metaphor finds a parallel in the fragile nature of nostalgia evoked by a photograph-a delicate bubble of memory that can be both cherished and mourned.
Photography, as an art form, also aligns with Schopenhauer’s views on the role of art in human life. For Schopenhauer, art serves as a temporary respite from the relentless striving of the Will. It allows us to transcend the individual self and connect with universal truths and emotions. In this sense, a photograph becomes more than a mere representation of reality; it transforms into a medium through which we confront our deepest longings and desires."
For what it's worth :)
To me, photography without emotion behind it is as dry as a blueprint from a draftsperson. In fact, many photographers are in more technical fields and music or photography or oil painting is a chance to approach something in a way that isn't technical. There is creativity in engineering, but it is a creativity bound by the laws of physics which can be frustrating. One has to design a packaging machine, and that requires some serious thinking about things in different ways but still within scientific (and economic) realities. In that regard, art is freeing.
Photography is a great art form, but so is oil painting and I don't think it should be discarded. I think of those times I saw striking scenes but the photograph didn't quite come off, or I didn't have my camera. The scenes were so striking that they are permanently in my head that I can still see them as if I were there, and those types of things would make great oil paintings. I still dabble in oil painting as well as photography.
Interesting video, it has got me thinking. I’ve never really thought to look for common elements in the work of photographers I like, I’ve just accepted I have appreciation for a wide range of styles.
I had discovered her before but was completely forgottten about her. Her work is just amazing. Simple, minimalist and therfore so good.
I checked out some of her photographs - remarkable, completely captivated me! The pastels of the past truly engender melancholy in me... Thanks for bringing Mária Švarbová to my attention!
Hi Alex, I enjoyed watching the work of Maria, great compositions and I really like the reflections. Also the way she places the object's in a scene. Thanks for sharing. 😊
The Soviet Era photographers have a, to coin a phrase, "Graphic Dystopian" aesthetic. Art designed designed to please and serve the state, which conveyes the concept that people are a function of the State while, at the same time conveying a hidden individuality in defiance of the State. In that era and place, the State defined acceptable art rather than did the artists. True artists found a way to defy the State without the State realizing it.
The colour science is brilliant. Also most of these photos are like you’re a spectator looking through a window, detached and distant.
One message is liking someone's work doesn't mean it's your style or typical of your work. Also, great works should stand on their own regardless of style or genre.
Jay Maisel has a great book : Light, Gesture & Color that I use as inspiration as his work always seems close to my eye and way of seeing. But he’s just one of many.
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The photographer who influenced me the most is James Fee. He stained and distressed negatives in a way that made them almost paintings.
You describe 9:15 as difficult but this image speaks to me.
What a remarkable photo series. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Wonderfull work, thank you for showing it!
I need the plug-in to add the Nostalgia and Melancholy slides.
the lady has great composure.
Remind me quite a bit of Edward Hopper's paintings
Looking at some of his paintings - often a person on their own, a bit staged, thoughtful, definitely melancholic. Light very important too
Thanks for sharing.