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Critique By:
Dino Correia (K:1980)
11/14/2007 12:40:44 PM
Wonderful photo Gerry. Their look is... lost.
A sacred moment
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Critique By:
Giuliano Guarnieri (K:36622)
9/24/2007 10:25:19 PM
Hello Gerry,
if you look at my picture there're sevral made with T55. It's a very nice (but expensive) film. Wonderful tonal range and high resolution. The result is always a nice surprise.
Remember to wash the film with a solution of "sodio solfito". The film is already developed and fixed but you need this extra wash to eliminate the blue gelatine from the film
Bye
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Critique By:
Pablo Dylan (K:63918)
9/16/2007 6:43:06 PM
Excellent dear Jerry,i like the tones and beauty expression of model.
Pablo
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/16/2007 5:00:06 AM
yes thats the idea,am not trying to promote things but show the harsh reality of the life. The last thing I want to do is make a sexy photo, even thou Sau was an attractive lady. I have another shot(tighter composition) of her looking up and away, that I will try to post later. Thanks for your comment.
Gerry
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Critique By:
John Jackson (K:1738)
9/16/2007 3:37:31 AM
As a photo I wouldn't think that this would make a good advertisement for her preofession.
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Critique By:
joe Chavez (K:572)
9/15/2007 8:40:33 AM
A photo should illustrate a thousand words.....
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!
thanks for the comment..........
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Critique By:
A Smith (K:851)
9/15/2007 8:33:18 AM
great shot!
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/15/2007 6:51:42 AM
Your welcome james, better work out before you give it a go, carrying all the equipment and film needed by yourself will end up wearing you down. You might need to hire some porters if your taking the gear overseas!
I ended up with 3 overweight check in bags along with 2 overweight carry on bags.
Gerry
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Critique By:
* James * (K:20200)
9/15/2007 5:06:07 AM
looks like a good series. i think this is a style i might like to try myself in the near future. thanks for sharing these photos with us.
james
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Critique By:
* James * (K:20200)
9/15/2007 5:04:21 AM
a common sight in many parts of asia. one thing about the beggars in thailand, they usually aren't aggressive (my experience). in some other countries, they follow you and hound you, sometimes even grabbing you.
good work. james
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Critique By:
* James * (K:20200)
9/15/2007 5:01:15 AM
yikes!!! thats one of the ugliest ladyboys i've seen yet, and i've seen plenty of them (on the streets i should add). good photo nonetheless.
best wishes ~ james
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/15/2007 2:29:16 AM
Shelby I will try to post it soon, I have it(Ti 28 photograph)printed but not scanned.
Still lots of film to develop from the series, about 60% of the 8x10 film has been developed and about 25% of the 5x7 film. It will probably take me 6 months or so to get everything completed, I will continue to post the better images.
Thanks Gerry
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Critique By:
Gustavo Scheverin (K:164501)
9/15/2007 2:28:22 AM
Extraño retrato....
Un abrazo!
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/15/2007 2:24:13 AM
Urs Rubin, thanks very much for your kind words, I am very happy to help give a voice to the the people and friends I photographed in Thailand.
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Critique By:
Urs Rubin (K:5172)
9/11/2007 8:53:19 AM
Your serial touches me deeply. It is a part of our world. And I think most important to be shown among those thousands of other pictures of beauty, nature, people presented here on Usefilm.
Thank you Gerry for haveing the courage to give those people a voice. Thank you for showing us one extent of the world we live in, a world we are part of, a world we all are responsible of for what we do!
Best wishes.
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Critique By:
SRS SRS (K:6731)
9/11/2007 8:34:08 AM
Yes, agree with James. Something about this series of pictures.
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Critique By:
SRS SRS (K:6731)
9/11/2007 8:32:07 AM
Am very interested in your work with these images / people. I agree with Patrick. I am also interested in the picture you are describing beneath his comment.
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Critique By:
matteo clusone (K:2656)
9/11/2007 8:25:22 AM
great one...and not only for the format!
I like the pose and the light.
Ciao Matteo
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/11/2007 4:44:43 AM
These 2 were young guys that were friends, they worked a bar with about 60 other guys, both relatively new to that world. I might post a image of another worker a 28 year old man who was a drug user and burnt out after about 8 years in the sex scene.
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/11/2007 4:38:08 AM
thanks very much James, glad you liked them.
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Critique By:
James Lee (K:4790)
9/10/2007 4:16:04 PM
Powerful images Gerry. Really quite moving. Superb.
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/10/2007 11:06:13 AM
Thanks very much Patrick, found your comments right on the mark and very helpfull, will continue to think of them in the future.
Love much of Kouldelka's work also, especially this photograph
http://www.horvatland.com/images/entrevues/koudelka-02.jpg
it is haunting.
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Critique By:
Patrick Crowther (K:13393)
9/9/2007 9:26:43 AM
Powerful. The numbers... god that's sad. They still have light in their eyes though...
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Critique By:
Patrick Crowther (K:13393)
9/9/2007 8:34:55 AM
Thanks so much for this info, Gerry. It's great you were so inspired by that classic series of photographs. For me, being inspired by someone or something so strongly is a positive advantage... far too much is made of 'originality' in the arts. Some of the greatest performers, artists and writers were deeply indebted to another artist... Bob Dylan's near obsession with Woody Guthrie springs to mind. I see it like this... artists work within a 'tradition', which can be a stylistic tradition, a comositional style, shared subject matter... the list goes on and on. Being influenced by another means one is drawing from the experience and ideas of a line of creative people, which is surely a good thing, so long as one brings a large part of oneself to whatever one is photographing or painting or writing as well. To be obsessed with originality often results in very self-conscious work that often just isn't very good... art for art's sake, but art no one wants to look at or listen to. My main man is Josef Koudelka...
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/9/2007 7:09:36 AM
Yes the work is inspired by Avedons book IN THE AMERICAN WEST, some of the compositional ideas are also influenced by this book.
I am a great admirer of Richard Avedon and consider much of his portrait work to be stunning.
Some of the differences between his working technique and mine include, Avedon shot on location in available light and used darkroom masks to get white backgrounds, I shot in studio with 4 flash heads(2 large softboxes not the one moving umbrella of Avedons studio work). Avedon shot with a 360 mm lens, mine was a 300. Avedon credits something like 14 assistants with helping create the book (3 or 4 in the field,plus darkroom people, spotting people, people who helped him find subjects and even 1 person devoted to loading film), I had me myself and I, I had to foot the bill($10,000 +), carry the camera gear, find my subjects and load, develop and process the film, Avedon phototogrphaed over 5 or 6 summers and shot something like 17000 sheets, I shot over 5 weeks and about 600 sheets.
I worked towards getting a different look than Avedon's but also wanted to retain some of the strengths I saw in his photographs. I also tried to photograph a subject that I am passionate about,that I felt was important. The work is definately connected to Avedon but I hope it also has a bit of me in it.
The thing that matters most is the subject and to be able to give these people a voice. It was very important to me for them to be heard and it was the reason I created the work.
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
9/9/2007 6:37:52 AM
thanks for the comments...Patrick I actually did a bunch of compositions with white all around the subject but found that a bit boring. Will try to poste more of those images here so you can get a better feel for the entire project.
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Critique By:
Billy Bloggs (K:51043)
9/7/2007 11:00:23 PM
Poignant, compelling & powerful image and, as Patrick said, with a sad undercurrent.
Regards, Gary
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Critique By:
Patrick Crowther (K:13393)
9/6/2007 6:57:26 AM
This is in the style of the portraits Richard Avedon took for his project 'In The American West', in which he photographed truckers, miners, drifters and waitresses - ordinary folk - against a white backdrop using a large format camera. Personally speaking, I would like there to have been more balance in the composition, with the subjects more centrally placed so that there was white background visible to both sides and above their heads. Particularly, I wish you hadn't cut off the top of the woman on the left's head. But all in all, a strong portrait with a sad undercurrent.
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Critique By:
Mia ... (K:2993)
8/22/2005 11:26:33 AM
Another very powerful image! Wish you would post more as you are very talented! Thanks for sharing.
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Critique By:
Gerry YAUM (K:94)
7/19/2004 4:52:33 AM
the pictures of walker evans? yes..I know the subway shots..love them..they were done with a hidden camera....I shot these with a nikon F5 and 20-35mm zoom...
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