Thanks, I didn't know Adam Bartos before. But I really liked his photos on his website. He might not be a super star in the art world but his photos are moving. I can definitely tell influence from Eggleston + some formalism. So I found an interview of him by the bomb magazine. It seems there are some overlap between his influence and mine. No wonder my photos reminded you of his. (Of course I am still light years from his level.) Here is the interview in case you are interested. http://bombsite.com/issues/107/articles/3260 Adam Bartos: Well, I took pictures as a child, and later I was an avid member of the darkroom club at school, so I was very interested and at just the right age to be seduced by the glamour ofBlow Up when it came out. Not only Veruschka and Redgrave, but especially the part in the beginning where the David Hemmings character comes out of a flophouse, with his camera hidden in a paper bag, goes around the corner to his Bentley, and tosses the Nikon into his glove compartment. Something about entering into different worlds with a camera—of course I didn’t appreciate the alienation of the character until decades later! I had a summer job with Bert Stern, at his enormous studio in the East 60s, which was as close as I could get to Blow Up, close enough for me to realize that a career in fashion photography wouldn’t suit me. Also, I remember examining The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson when it came out in ’68, and that was a big influence on me. I went to film school but continued to photograph. At the time, my friends and I were shooting and projecting slides. I saw some early color work I really liked by Joel Meyerowitz in an issue of Artforum, and I just looked him up in the phone book. He invited me to come over and showed me a tray of his slides and looked at mine, which was terrific, and inspiring. In the mid-‘70s I was fortunate to get to know Bill Eggleston and Stephen Shore and see what they were doing, as well as my contemporaries in color, Mitch Epstein and Len Jenshel, and, at a certain point, it became too engaging to do something else. And my parents were supportive!
【在 n*******m 的大作中提到】 : Your color photos made me think of Adam Bartos. Good works.
l*t
19 楼
可惜只有小图
a*f
20 楼
Thanks. Did you mean that with 6x7 you only get 10 shots a roll? To me the bottle neck has always been the time to take photos.
you are probably right on this one. these street performers were indeed a disruption in the picture. I would rather them not in it, but I didn't manage to achieve that.
【在 a*f 的大作中提到】 : you are probably right on this one. these street performers were indeed a : disruption in the picture. I would rather them not in it, but I didn't : manage to achieve that.
n*m
33 楼
I like this photo not because of the people in red. What attracts me is the audiences sitting in front of you, the buildings, and the sky, then the square and people in red. It would be a great photo even without the people in red. The composition of this photo is great, exposure is fine, and color is a little too saturated, but it may because of my monitor and light. This two are my favorite among your photos here.