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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/25/2004 9:27:55 AM
Could you please contact me at mcreider@inter.net.il?
Thank you.
Maxim
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Critique By:
Alexander Chapaev (K:95)
11/24/2004 7:47:19 PM
The Photo Language of Maxim Reider
(Continuation. See ?Hope? Hope 1?, ?Mariinsky?)
Maxim, I wanted to stop our discussion being afraid to become importunate. However, I am so enrolled by your methods that feel an irresistible desire to add some more words.
I believe that photography has it own language, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting and music, of course. The basis of fine arts is human vision. Many people believe that in the hierarchy of this language the image is secondary to vision, and that the author of a photo is the source of its meaning. It seems obvious that vision is a clear and direct way to percept and to interpret the reality. However, our vision is not formalized whereas the photo language is formalized. This formalization leads to loss of information about the natural object and, paradoxically, multiply the number of legitimate interpretation of the photo content. As a mater of fact, a photograph is a shadow of the reality. You know the classical example about people seating in a cave and watching on the wall the shadows on the real world. Looking only on the shadows they speculate about the reality and its meanings.
The author of the photo may not realize this fact. A great photographer, really great photographer, is unpoetical. His language just multiply the number of meanings and interpretation. But the worse the photo language is, the more picturesque the photo looks. However, there are people that create art that they dare not realize. You defined your photographs as modest. Yes, in this context they are modest.
I though a lot of time about your puzzle ?Be fruitful ?? I felt that there is something here that most people loose, especially non Israelis. Look now on my interpretation of this photo. Ten years ago the super-model Yael B. .advertising ?Castro? flashed in an charming quasy-erotic TV moment. So she became a top model which is seen on your photo. The weakened religious man in your photo is about 35-40. So, he also may remember this moment. Should I describe his dreams? And if I do not know Hebrew or if I do not read your text, my interpretation is not less legitimate than yours. Thank you for this photo.
Maxim, thank you not only for your photo art, but for things that for many people may be not less important that your masterpieces. In the most difficult time for all of us you wrote about music. It was surrealistic. I frequently told to my friends ?You, ?zatiukaniy?, look at this stoic from Leningrad school #38.? Bravo Maxim, Bis.
Alexander.
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Critique By:
Alexander Chapaev (K:95)
11/23/2004 5:53:10 PM
Modaim meduyakim.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/22/2004 7:49:44 PM
Wow, I really enjoy reading your comments and interpretations of my photos. Once, I used to do the same to other people, and now I know how it sounds. Well, thank you for your kind words about my modest works. I want you to realize that I am not trying to say anything by my photos, I do not see any hidden massage, and of course never think of thesis and antithesis. I just enjoy it immensely and I am happy when people like my photos. I like this photo a lot, to tell you the truth. Granted, some of the things you say about my modest potos are right (I mean, I can accept it), but the rest sounds strange for me. Thank you anyway. You say you are a profssional. In which field?
Thanks again,
Maxim
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Critique By:
Alexander Chapaev (K:95)
11/22/2004 7:27:10 PM
Continuation (See Hope 1, Hope 2)
?For me Mariinsky is Petersburg ? and Petersburg is Empire. Empire is static and heavy. No
dynamics?
Maxim, I am a professional (not photographer) and never will become a real photographer. We are not colleagues. Therefore I can say you honestly that few photographers had ever interested me so much as you. I have tried to understand why it is so. Now, in the course of our discussion I revealed your secret. Now I am sure that your best photographs (and ?Mariinsky? is definitely one of the best) do hide an exact antithesis to your text (thesis). And it is not the notorious unity of opposites, it is a full discord.
Looking at your ?Mariinisnky? I thought about the back of this Empire without a face or with such a physiognomy that it is better not to see it at all. Fortunately, this figure is extremely unstable. We see only one hand whereas the other one is in dark. May be it does not exist any more. However, let us imagine a person who tries to keep the stability with one hand. The half of the Empire is in full dark, the other one lit by non-natural light. Once again, there is no balance. It is not a static stable heavy statue, it is an invalid who tries to keep his disability in a secret.
Perhaps, for this reason most of readers try to shift the figure right in order to see the second hand, otherwise they feel some discomfort.
I do not like such expressions, but it is a great photo. And do not say me that you meant something different. It does not matter. The photography belongs to you, but the interpretation is mine. By pressing the button ?Send? you send me a physical message, my computer got it, ?Click? and I read your story ?The fall of a great Empire?, a story about ballet and art written by an artist (amity). Thank you for reading.
Alexander.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/22/2004 6:27:03 AM
Just re-read (or better then, have read up to the end) your text. It is very interesting, especially what you write about the click generation. But the click is just the form, you can be empty headed also in the pre-Internet era.
Now, there's no any hidden message here, there's no message at all. I am not seeking popularity, because if I did I should have done it differently. This si very simple - the things which I am interested in, are not interesting to the most of humanity. The same about not small part of my writings (not captions to the photos, but my articles). Only a few are interested in interviews with classic musicians, for example, and I interviewed almost all major musicians who performed in this country for the last, say, 6-7 years. Tourism articles are different, this is for everybody. But intellectual and sophisticated things are only for a few. Luckily enough, I do not care about popularity.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/21/2004 9:55:43 PM
Alexander, I am not an artist, I am documentating what I see, there's no message, I just see young beautiful and no so beautiful and not so young faces, that's it. I am not young anymore, and as you are getting older your seder adifuyot is changing. Write you later, I have to work now, just came home from an event and I have to go thru about 500 pics.
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Critique By:
Alexander Chapaev (K:95)
11/21/2004 9:36:40 PM
Maxim, by saying that your photos are deep I meant that usually they invoke reminiscences, allusions, and references generating a tree of associations.
You spark this process but can not control it. Now my reaction on your photo can be totally different from what you expect to create as an artist. Moreover, it is not unlikely that your piece of art hides a message which you send to the reader subconsciously.
Well, let us talk about your last ?Hope?. On the foreground we see beautiful spiritual faces (your are a master in finding them) of two girls who already know what they want. They hope like pray. A teenager, still an ugly duck-ling emerges from behind their shoulders. A young man whose dark face is twisted with emotions and touch of anger defends this subtle group.
All this might be ambiguous, and quite standard without the most important character, and adult (comparatively old) man who still hopes albeit he saw many similar events. He remembers that when he was young like the singer he also hoped.
Believe me, I wrote this passage before reading your text.
Unfortunately, the photo can be interpreted in a different way (and here I found your hidden message). We see a concert of a pop-star. On such assemblages youngsters frequently twist candles, express emotions, etc. The old men just try to recall the time when he was also young, strong and full of sexual attractiveness.
You have right to say that I turn a tragedy to farce. Here is the point. I am an internet reader who grown up in the time of ?click? and icons. ?Click?-beautiful, ?click?-ugly, ?click?-freedom, ?click?-tyranny, ?click?-good, ?click?-bad, ?click?-animal, ?click?-human, ?click?-peace, ?click?-war. I have no time to read, I learned to recognize icons before I learned letters. "Click"-Maxim Reider. To much icons, to deep, no comments. "Click" next.
I do not think that your highly professional photographs, a real art, can become highly popular in Internet by adding text. I asserted this indirectly in my previous message. What can be done in such a situation ? I do not know. However, I am sure that your photos must be presented in such huge forums anyway.
Alexander.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/20/2004 10:18:29 PM
One more thing, Sasha. This was very wise of you to notice that there are photos which need a story and those which do not. Most of my photos do, may be because I am a journalist and almost always see a single picture (or a series of pictures) as a part of major story, which also includes a text. On the other hand, I know this is my problem as a photographer, it took time to realize that many of my photos do not receive any reaction, partly because people do not know what it is all about.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/20/2004 9:53:03 PM
Thank you for your detailed critique. Well, hope! I wish I knew the answer. Have I written that the photo was taken during the Rabin memorial rally? The overall feeling was hope - hope for better life, for peace. My heart was bleeding when I saw these faces, beautiful faces - I have enough photos for an entire illustrated article. Young and old and middle aged. I looked at the young kids singing (I think I will submit a few more photos since I could not publish them - I am the editor for the Style magazine, but this is not for us - good life, positive attitude, you know, ze ka ze nora dramati, as our graphic designer said) and thought - what kind of life can we offer them. Thank you for your comment, may be I will add some explanations if and when I submit more photos from the series.
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Critique By:
Alexander Chapaev (K:95)
11/20/2004 8:09:01 PM
Maxim, it was stated in one of your comments that you are interested in the general internet reader opinion. Here it is one of them.
Your photos are deep. You are a professional and the quality of your images is also professional. I believe that the photographs which are presented by you in this forum are intended to render the reality without additional explanation. Of course, in this case they must refer to certain cultural codes which are unconsciously accepted by different group of people. As long as you tell us about musicians, actors, artists, animals, that are creatures with nobility of features the codes and the instincts work. The enchanting photo of Zubin Meta indeed does not need a story. I think that if you would have an opportunity to photograph him in a public bath-house even there he will appear as a great man.
Your last photo ?Hope? shows us a girl with a face of a rare beauty lit by a candle. What for she is hoping ? Does she expect that we will be enough strong and wise, or, alternatively, she and her friend are our hope ? Is the place of sorrow that you show meaningful for a general reader?
It seems that this photo needs a story, and I suspect that once it has been written but not for Internet.
Alexander.
P.S. I wrote these yesterday, before your comment on my image was posted.
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Critique By:
Rebecca Raybon (K:26654)
10/31/2004 11:59:47 PM
Beautiful composition and grain here. Their expressions are so serious and thoughtful..not what we usually see in young people these days. Very well done.
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Critique By:
Gustavo Scheverin (K:164501)
10/31/2004 10:20:37 PM
Dura imagen cargada de dramatismo....buena toma!
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Critique By:
Ryan Poirier (K:182)
10/26/2004 10:05:22 PM
i love that angle
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:150877)
10/24/2004 7:56:51 PM
Great portrait, Maxim! Excellent lighting.
Dave.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
10/24/2004 7:14:01 PM
1250. But since the shutter speed was rather hight (1/125), the noise is not seen - this is the secret, on Nikon D100 you can shoot on high sensitivity with a high shutter speed!
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Critique By:
Gustavo Scheverin (K:164501)
10/24/2004 7:10:02 PM
Hermosa...revela pasión y concentración
Muy buena!
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Critique By:
Roberto Carli (K:13689)
10/24/2004 7:08:37 PM
Great shot!!!Can i know iso shot?Well done!!!
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Critique By:
Michele Berti (K:14921)
10/14/2004 1:38:05 PM
nice shot.
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Critique By:
Ahmed J (K:6014)
4/26/2004 12:24:59 PM
excellent shot, i like lighting, composition and colors. thanks
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Critique By:
Nuno Palha (K:2048)
4/26/2004 10:54:34 AM
Good feeling.
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Critique By:
Bobby Mun (K:3709)
4/26/2004 8:02:27 AM
wonderful composition & good lighting...
BTW, was it taken using studio lighting ? Any software adjustment ? Good work !
Cheers ! Bobby
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
4/17/2004 5:07:42 AM
Thank you Ron. BTW, in my personal vocabular DOF is a dirty word, and pls don't take it personal. This is the camera which makes things sharp and this is the photographer who commands it and tries to use DOF as a tool.
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Critique By:
Ron Beezley (K:2834)
4/17/2004 4:53:46 AM
Cute picture, needs more DOF.
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Critique By:
Stephen Bowden (K:64141)
4/12/2004 8:07:39 AM
Great photo and he looks very proud too - wonderful !
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Critique By:
Brian Rueger (K:7341)
4/2/2004 11:19:09 AM
Nice cat shot. Good portriat.
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Critique By:
Kamil Rudnicki (K:172)
4/2/2004 10:45:11 AM
Nice kittie!
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Critique By:
Riny Koopman (K:19998)
4/2/2004 10:35:34 AM
lovely composition!
best-regards-from the netherlands
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Critique By:
Gertrud Gozner (K:14222)
4/2/2004 8:06:16 AM
nice shot!
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Critique By:
RC. Dany (K:64104)
3/30/2004 10:10:15 AM
wonderful image.
anne...
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