Young kids singing at the Rabin memorial rally in Tel Aviv on the 9th anniversary of Rabin's death. When I looked at them, my heartwas bleeding - what kind of future can we offer to our kids, what kind of the world is this? Some of them will die while the others will mourn them. But, as they say, the hope dyes last.
As for the hope - this is the hope for better life, for a lasting peace
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.
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.
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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