tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post3367141831185255334..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Photo Critiquesamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-29306159116010446732019-07-10T14:59:32.872-07:002019-07-10T14:59:32.872-07:00Ha! Glad you like it. Maybe I should write more of...Ha! Glad you like it. Maybe I should write more often before I've had my morning coffee.Homo_erectushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00631525314830974099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-2181363438924237382019-07-10T08:37:51.098-07:002019-07-10T08:37:51.098-07:00"a thousand people in a dark room all screami..."a thousand people in a dark room all screaming out rules for different games" is brilliant, and in due time I will forget its source and use it as if I wrote it!<br /><br />Thanks in advance, as the kids say!<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-66733265798965781642019-07-10T07:48:55.246-07:002019-07-10T07:48:55.246-07:00Nobody told you to straighten the horizontal lines...Nobody told you to straighten the horizontal lines? Geez. That used to be critique forum rule number 1.<br /><br />The people on critique forums are mostly just policing the boundaries of their private internal set of rules about what makes a photograph "good" or "bad". Almost none of them are even interested in art. So, it's like a thousand people in a dark room all screaming out the rules for different games at the top of their lungs.Homo_erectushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00631525314830974099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-66572264774322264592019-07-10T05:33:26.347-07:002019-07-10T05:33:26.347-07:00After John Szarkowski finished hanging the origina...After John Szarkowski finished hanging the original "American Pictures" show at the MOMA in 1938, Walker Evans went in and re-cropped the photographs with scissors.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-19064066566590266332019-07-10T03:58:09.997-07:002019-07-10T03:58:09.997-07:00Much amateur forum/club criticism sounds to me lik...Much amateur forum/club criticism sounds to me like, "This is how I would have done it". There should be more to it than that to be worth listening to. But maybe even critics have to hone their skills somewhere.<br /><br />Over the years one kind of film criticism has really annoyed me. He/she, although usually he, would state, "The director passed up the chance to make a movie about 'this'", and then go on to describe the movie the critic would have made. When I see that phrase I stop reading.Robert Roaldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887600184257979094noreply@blogger.com