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ThierryEMMANUEL
Community Member
Very interesting demo, Stephen. This made me wonder if I wanted or should give a realistic descriptive caption or an emotional and poetic ("Impressionist" as the image looks like a painting by Claude Monet) caption to this image. And the real legend is... right in between. A good exercise to start a good day. (last week I posted a tribute to "Nighthawks". I still wonder why that name...)
StephenTaylor
2 years agoCommunity Member
Thanks, Thierry.
Yep, you could have gone for a straightforward descriptive caption (that was the process Dorothea Lange used for her "dust bowl" photographs of the 1930s) or the more emotional caption that Stieglitz chose. I have always been fascinated by how words and pictures can communicate or even miscommunicate (!) which was what I was trying to explore with this little exercise.
Yep, you could have gone for a straightforward descriptive caption (that was the process Dorothea Lange used for her "dust bowl" photographs of the 1930s) or the more emotional caption that Stieglitz chose. I have always been fascinated by how words and pictures can communicate or even miscommunicate (!) which was what I was trying to explore with this little exercise.