Very nice. I "thumbed" through the whole thing and found it striking and
visually pleasing. It occurred to me that the creator of the book must know a
lot about what he's doing. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Registered Neanderthal
On Jun 27, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Moose wrote:
> In the meantime, Mr. Moose has made a photo book that may be close to the
> antithesis of Mr. Crawford's oeuvre.
> <http://www.mypublisher.com/index/?e=OHm3Q8zJl3QKI9lWmulTHc7e3_pxTrKh&showForm=true>
>
> The title is only on the spine, "Extracts from Artifacts".
>
> I have called my images that are formal vignettes from a broader visual field
> 'abstracts' in the past, but recently
> learned that St. Ansel, perhaps from growing up with true abstract art,
> preferred the term 'extract', which does seem to
> me more precisely descriptive.
>
> A modest book in size/scope, in part because it was a special price for 40
> images; it's limited to relatively recent
> images with µ4/3 cameras of subjects that are primarily or completely man
> made.
>
> In the process of creation, it somehow became a series of otherwise mostly
> unrelated images in facing page pairs that
> relate to each other in various ways. The relationship is most often purely
> visual, but may be quite different between
> pairs.
>
> Carol LOVES it, so it has at least one fan, and was already worth the effort.
> I'm still a little too close to it to know
> what I think about it as a whole, freestanding piece.
>
> Thanks to all here who have had nice things to say about my various Extract
> images. Especially to Joel:
--
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