Other than that it was taken in Việt Nam about 1966, with an Asahi Pentax camera and a 17mm fish-eye lens—I remember nothing about this picture. Where we were, and who the two men were, and anything about the time is lost to me. Attempting to understand the image, a friend asked me to tell her about it, and I could say nothing.
But I do love the picture. It reminds me of painters and printmakers I admire, but not necessarily of photography, at all.
Maybe that is where people get mixed up trying to tie a photograph to some reality that may not have ever existed.
But those would be made-up (fantasy) stories, and the people to whom I am referring want the 'facts' (reality), because, to their thinking, that is what photographs are supposed to represent.
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Other than that it was taken in Việt Nam about 1966, with an Asahi Pentax camera and a 17mm fish-eye lens—I remember nothing about this picture. Where we were, and who the two men were, and anything about the time is lost to me. Attempting to understand the image, a friend asked me to tell her about it, and I could say nothing.
But I do love the picture. It reminds me of painters and printmakers I admire, but not necessarily of photography, at all.
Maybe that is where people get mixed up trying to tie a photograph to some reality that may not have ever existed.
T.
12 people could write 12 stories about this. And should! Like any art (?), the meaning is in the eye of the beholder.
But those would be made-up (fantasy) stories, and the people to whom I am referring want the 'facts' (reality), because, to their thinking, that is what photographs are supposed to represent.
T.
your NAM photos are so powerful, great portraits.
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