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| FrankieGoesToCollingwood wrote: | | ok, I'm missing whatever it is that's outstanding about a photo of a person walking down the street. Can someone enlighten me? |
From my point of view and with regard to what I noted earlier the other aspect I like about the Bucks photo is that is evokes comparison with the James Dean photo that was popular in the 1980's: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams". If you add that to the pensive, solitary, reflecting, not quite windswept man walking against traffic directions next to him that is, against the flow I reckon its not a bad pic at all.
http://www.icollector.com/Gottfried-Helnwein-James-Dean-Boulevard-of-Broken-Dreams-Painting_i8667875
Then again "Art for Art sake" from a brilliant band of the 1970's & more.....10cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7dgRxpx6XY
Then again isn't Art is meant to be contraversial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Aj7W3g1qo
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thanks, wpt, I do get all that. The pic just doesn't do it for me in a way that I find outstanding. Probably beside the point but would the photo still be considered outstanding if you took out Bucks and threw in some anonymous joe?
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Into the coaching position, you mean?  |
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Piethagoras' Theorem
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you know I was expecting such a comment 
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watt price tully
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| FrankieGoesToCollingwood wrote: | | thanks, wpt, I do get all that. The pic just doesn't do it for me in a way that I find outstanding. Probably beside the point but would the photo still be considered outstanding if you took out Bucks and threw in some anonymous joe? |
Cheers FGTH:
I think that was the point though of the phtograph:
Bucks:
team not doing well, coaching status being debated in the media then juxtapose that with
Boulevard of broken dreams (a coaches lament)
Solitary man
Going against the flow
(etc)
So in that context it's a very good pic.
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fair enough mate
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i thought it was more to do with the somber occasion plus he was a solitary figure on what would have been one of the CBD's busiest intersections any other time.
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