tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post8820646006725347858..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Picture Thiszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-55446535140784418672011-02-21T21:52:36.063+01:002011-02-21T21:52:36.063+01:00Perhaps he knew that when lions finish doing that ...Perhaps he knew that when lions finish doing that they start looking for a nice meal of fresh photographer.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-65166018880685244302011-02-20T19:33:16.537+01:002011-02-20T19:33:16.537+01:00Only they wouldn't take it. The neophyte Leni ...Only they wouldn't <i>take</i> it. The neophyte Leni Riefenstahls who enjoy group-clump photos hate that kind of randomness. They'd be like someone I know who was happy to take a thousand pictures of a thousand impala in Kruger National Park standing among a thousand blades of grass eating a thousand leaves, then turned the camera off the moment two lions started fucking.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-35802011880418884042011-02-20T12:31:26.357+01:002011-02-20T12:31:26.357+01:00Those tableaux from the early 20th century are wor...Those tableaux from the early 20th century are worth resurrecting so that people give them as much attention as those participating in them did - I have one cousin who has dozens and dozens in a family album. Her father was a very silent man so probably it was his way of resolving the problem of conversation when lots of people came to stay. Your description of the smile smile variety of picture taking made me laugh. I suppose if you actually did start biting people it would just make another, more exciting photograph for the one giving the instructions to take.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-77508785364401433992011-02-18T16:51:36.543+01:002011-02-18T16:51:36.543+01:00I can imagine someone in the future, or even the p...I can imagine someone in the future, or even the present (an artist searching for a theme, or someone whose hobby is nostalgia or domestic mystery) looking at a collection of tableaux-photographs and finding them charming, evidence of a certain ethnic sensibility, particular to a time, a culture, and a place, but the whole business of someone telling you to stop what you're doing and "Stand over there!" and "Smile, smile, stand closer together, stand closer, bunch up!" and "Now just the three boys," and "Now the two of you together," and "Now with a dog on your lap," and, "Now in front of the Christmas tree," and, "Now by the window," and, "Not with the food in your mouth," and, "Not like <i>that</i>" -- all this idiot amateur stage management, when you know from experience that all you're going to get out of it is another picture of yourself looking like a chinless and disgusting mannequin, makes me want to bite people.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.com