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It certainly is.Yes, quite unnerving in some way.
It certainly is.Yes, quite unnerving in some way.
Antanas Sutkus, "Blind pioneer" (1962).
The eyes are the first thing that I have focused on. They are mesmerizing.Antanas Sutkus, "Blind pioneer" (1962).
Almost doll like and as if in a trance?
I am now captivated to learn more about this mans work.
Your comments are so true and indeed one I have not been particularly thought of or indeed informed of prior to this conversation.What you said - there is an element of infantile neotony in our response I think. It's the relationship between the size of the eyes and the rest of the face. It's hard wired into all higher mammals - a trivial example is, that's why we go 'ooh and ah,' over puppies and kittens. Nature has seen fit that this happens so we bond and look after our off-spring. In the case of most mammals an enormously time consuming process. cheers - I.
Fascinating.Wayne - his work is quite something. Go search and you shall find. He's still alive and working. He had to move from his native New York after a bit of bother with the NYPD about the corpses. He now lives in New Mexico. cheers - I.
Well said Wayne. That photographer has a story - coming from the old school of Lithuanian photographers he used to do a lot of shooting of "soviet reality", but of course in the way that was not approved by the party, so lots of his shots were never published, and those that were always drew unnecessary attention.Only because Lithuania was still quite a way from Moscow and on the doorsteps of Europe, it was a bit easier to get away with these things there.The eyes are the first thing that I have focused on. They are mesmerizing.
Almost doll like and as if in a trance?
When you start looking deeper into the capture you begin to immediately realise the sadness in this photo.
The scar on the child's face is so disturbing. The inevitability of it all.
A picture that I hate to say I am so pleased was taken.
Purely due to the fact that it is there for the record and nobody should ever take things for granted no matter how bad circumstances may be for us at times.
We must even then appreciate our bad times because there is always people a lot worse off than us.
I hope I am not coming across as preaching folks but in all honesty I am writing what I am currently thinking and truly mean.
Wayne.
@Helveticum - H - thank you for flagging up Sutkus' pictures. I'd never heard of him before. They are incredibly good. Astonishing. And thank you for his back-story - it makes appreciating and understanding his images easier - yours - I.
He's also most famous for this picture of Sartre:
Jean-Paul wasn't even aware he was being photographed - thought Sutkus was just his guide during the trip to Lithuania. Asked for the prints later on, having found out. However, for years the French have been credited this picture to Cartier-Bresson, many still do.
Well that is a coincidence Iain. Unless your a mind reader. I'm reading a book about the great European sleeper trains (I loved them back in the day) and there are plenty of descriptions of the great Parisian railway termini. It's nice to have an image to go with all those words. ( I still think it's art!).Interesting H - I never would have called this picture as being taken by H.C.B - stylistically he and Sutkus are very different. Sartre is a lot easier to recognise if you see him face on. Talking of H.C.B - 'Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare,' - 1932. It would take me a while to find a picture that is better composed than this.
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@Barry Giddens - the photographer said of this picture - 'Photography is just luck. There was a fence, and I poked my camera through the fence. It's a fraction of a second.' A man after my own heart. cheers - I.
Well that is a coincidence Iain. Unless your a mind reader. I'm reading a book about the great European sleeper trains (I loved them back in the day) and there are plenty of descriptions of the great Parisian railway termini. It's nice to have an image to go with all those words. ( I still think it's art!).