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Response to An image for Richard's "dilemma" thread on PoP Forum

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
Thanks for speaking your mind(s). I try not to be too objective when dealing (photographically) with the body, Preferring to use gesture and rhythm to convey a state of mind or whatever it is I'm trying to address which is usually hard to put into words. A sort of visual haiku that defines a specific topic but makes no judgement or definate statement. I want people to put themselves or someone they know into these images and not implore or preach a specific agenda.

The scanner is about 10 yrs old and the print is on Ilford Fiber Matte, which has a reflectivity similar to skin, but yeilds no d-max in a scan.

The light is a 3x4 ft. softbox just outside the frame with no fill at all. I was much more concerned with the form of the gesture than with the cut of the musculature and didn't want to deal with the shadow detail (if you know what I mean). It would have been distracting from the other interpretive possibilities offered.

It's a difficult print from a 665 neg (I had to use polaroid) so holding tone in the thigh and the arm required specific manipulations that the print holds but my scanner won't.

Thanks again for your comments, I'm now motivated to find a baby for part three of this series, I'll post the feminine image in the next few days... t

(posted 8803 days ago)

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