Post AT2EWRcZzfYn8GikIC by AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AT2EPl3VL5VnNb7t8y by shlepcar@sfba.social
2023-02-23T06:05:36Z
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Granite, OklahomaJuly 8, 1972photo by Stephen Shore
(DIR) Post #AT2EPlhuupq1Ow2A8O by AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
2023-02-23T06:12:58Z
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@shlepcar not gonna lie it drives me nuts to think this guy got away with this photo when 50 years later it would've got 4 likes and he'd be working minimum wage to pay his bills
(DIR) Post #AT2EPmGIqzLN7a7cjQ by shlepcar@sfba.social
2023-02-23T07:03:15Z
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@AbandonedAmerica I get where you're coming from... though obviously I am a fan. It is one of a set of a few hundred snapshots he took on a cross country trip and had printed at a drugstore. I think I must have shared at least a quarter of them by now. He, along with Eliot Porter, are widely cited as making color photography art.
(DIR) Post #AT2EPmwqIpN5FW1b2O by AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
2023-02-23T07:07:16Z
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@shlepcar oh, I get you. I know he has a huge body of work. I apologize for the frustration, it's just I've been thinking a lot about how photography differs from his time and now. I'm a guy who got an MFA where profs loved contemporary photos that seemed so low effort and I try so hard for so little. That's my baggage. But it doesn't mean he doesn't have great work or this isn't worthy of being shared.
(DIR) Post #AT2ESSDtoW3TqCH320 by DaSkinny1@newsie.social
2023-02-23T07:13:51Z
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@AbandonedAmerica @shlepcarI follow both of you, and all I have to say is, "Now children, fight nicely." 😂
(DIR) Post #AT2ESSwD9lV63d0R6G by AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
2023-02-23T07:15:37Z
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@DaSkinny1 no fight here. Shore has awesome work. It's my baggage and I wasn't trying to down @shlepcar for sharing it.
(DIR) Post #AT2ESTrzgvimwq2aAK by AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
2023-02-23T07:15:52Z
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@DaSkinny1 @shlepcar also your dogs rock
(DIR) Post #AT2ESbZr2FxsqtcD0C by DaSkinny1@newsie.social
2023-02-23T07:19:22Z
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@AbandonedAmerica @shlepcarYou two are rock stars. ✌️
(DIR) Post #AT2EUIJVd0HNgbm8bQ by shlepcar@sfba.social
2023-02-23T07:35:23Z
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@AbandonedAmerica No need to apologize. We like what we like. Honestly, I feel some of that about some of his photos as well, but there is something about his stuff that lands with me. Now, a photographer whose work drives me similarly batty is William Wegman's that the Met has from the 1970s. Though I suspect is part of its intent. And then there is the weird thing of not really liking Walker Evans' "good' photos, but loving his polaroids.
(DIR) Post #AT2EWRcZzfYn8GikIC by AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
2023-02-23T07:44:13Z
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@shlepcar oh, see, you're someone I'd LOVE to talk photography with because I'm a huge fan of that WPA/FSA period but chatting with people who have strong opinions about what works for them and what doesn't in photos gives me life. And Wegman is not a favorite of mine even though I love dogs, so we're on the same page there
(DIR) Post #AT2FWHiUv0OEMsyboG by ivan@vucica.net
2023-02-25T10:37:39.959785Z
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@AbandonedAmerica @shlepcar The technological gap is just so vast.I bought a film EF-mount camera (remembering using something as a child of the 90s) and went on a walk with a friend who already has experience with film. It's so much more effort than my MFT-mount camera and with such delayed gratification and tight budget that it's a -- different kind of enjoyable.And it requires so much more additional knowledge, even with all the automation that even this camera I picked off of eBay for £30ish has. (It still lacked some features that my friend wanted me to use.)I was very nice and made me very aware of what I'm doing, of the cost of each photo I'm taking, and how I won't know the outcome until the film ia developed. (And painfully aware that I cannot even swap film cartridge, because I destroyed one not knowing "rewind" is not undoable!)I love the experience, and it got me to appreciate how much knowledge one had to have, and how much planning one had to do, to be a photographer.And movies? Even greater expenses! Even more risk! Imagine losing a bunch of good takes by destroying the rolls of film and having to reshoot to get inferior results. "Oops -- this stock of film had a different ISO than I planned the lighting for... And I can't tell until the film is developed." What a different world to be in!Hence I have a lot of appreciation for the skills the photographers of old had to put in, which tempers my annoyance quite a bit.