10.05.2008

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above: Tallin, Estonia. Annie Dow.
below: Florence, Italy. Damien Pitter.

7 comments:

  1. This was taken just before sunset in Florence. Monna and I were wandering in a part of the city we hadn't visited before and everything was bathed in this golden light. There was this little shop that seemed so extraordinary, both because the shop was so small and oddly crammed in to its space, but also because the things in it and the style of it were so distinctive. I also loved that the woman was sitting there making her jewelry, all in a space that really only one person can stand in and turn around at a time. And the shop is smaller than the arched driveway beside it. Europeans have a different relationship with space than North Americans. Maybe with baths of golden light too.

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  2. Annie's photo is so austere, so Northern; Damien's is so...Florentine. Voluptuous, even. I love that kid zipping into your shot.

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  3. Yeah, I was pretty happy with that kid too. Sometimes you get a bonus just for taking too long to frame your shot. I also like how his green shirt ties in to Annie's shot. You always see doors in Europe, none of them the same and most of them closed, and you often wonder what's on the other side. I guess what I like about this pairing is that it's both things, the closed door, and the magic of what's inside.

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  4. It almost seems as if both pictures could have been taken on the same street: Annie's on a cloudy morning and Damien's on a sunny late afternoon.

    Sometimes a place jumps out and holds on to a part of you even after you leave. Your shop and the kid on the bike seems like such a place.

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  5. Jocelyn, you've really got something here. Taking your comment one step further, Annie's shot could easily represent the Protestant Reformation while Damien's shot captures the voluptuousness (nice word!), the beautifully back-lit decadence of the Roman Catholic Church. This is a provocative pairing.

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  6. Voluptuous is being used a lot here in the maternity ward - let me tell you...

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  7. It's one of my very favourite words. I also like Rubenesque. Words that remind us of a time when anorexia was not chic or sexy. How lovely.

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