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Going to a Dance

Going to a Dance

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 John FitzGerald
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August Sander, here's your hat. I don't know if you were referring to "Three Farmers Going to a Dance", but this struck me as a much improved version of that photo. The three heads are still popping up above the equivalent of a horizon, but the diagonal of the subjects is much stronger here and the background provides additional tension and a feeling of actually being outdoors, where Sander might as well have posed his three farmers (who were actually two miners and an office worker) against a studio flat.

There is progress in art.
4 years ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to John FitzGerald club
Thank you very much for this critique. I knew nothing of August Sander's work. The title suggested itself. When I searched the internet for information about Sander one of the first things I found was on the site of Christie's auctioneers revealing that in 2015 they had sold a 10" x 8" print of 'Three young farmers on their way to a dance' for £104,500. I was astounded. www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/august-sander-1876-1964-three-young-farmers-on-5894186-details.aspx
4 years ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to The Limbo Connection club
I was unaware that it had fetched this price. I can honestly say that if I had found Sander's photo in a snapshot pile at an old paper or collectibles show going for a buck, without knowing who it was by, I would have passed on it.

To me, Sander's photo just looks like a bad menswear ad. Yours displays far better composition (as does your other version). And Sander's is murky.

Sander was supposedly constructing a typology of German society, a dubious exercise, to put it mildly. That doesn't seem to bother anyone, nor does his representation of three non-farmers as farmers.
4 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to John FitzGerald club
I too would pass on Sander's photo. It looks contrived and boring to my eye. I am flattered by the contrast you draw with my photographs. I would add that from the moment art changes hands for money it becomes degraded and distorted. The effect is small when it is exchanged for a meal or the rent. The larger the sum, the greater the debasement.
4 years ago.
 The Limbo Connection
The Limbo Connection club
I had attempted something similar almost exactly four years earlier in the same place and had been quite pleased with the result:
Girls Going to a Dance
However, I feel the latest effort is an improvement. I was very pleased that you had made time to record your views so thoroughly because I never really know whether images are generally interesting and appealing. Some generate no interest whereas others surprise. That is the value of ipernity with its many discerning and capable artists.
4 years ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to The Limbo Connection club
One of the great benefits of photography to me is that it makes changing POV easy. Your two photographs here illustrate the benefits of looking at things from angles other than the normal. There are all sorts of interesting things to be found.

Of course, first you have to get people to look at things. These days people seem to prefer the artificial worlds in their cellphones to the real world about them. So I often try to promote looking at things we usually pay no attention to. That's why many of my photos are about the wonder of traffic cones.
4 years ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to John FitzGerald club
There is a lot of mileage in traffic cones.
4 years ago.

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