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Houston, TX - ian - Sunday, December 18th, 2005 : goo
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elaine: 18th Dec 2005 - 22:11 GMT
i like your worker photos, i always did. i am glad you have posted some new ones, it's still a seriously underrepresented genre and a really particular kind of social document, as well as making for good viewing
Peter: wow. the one of the kneeling worker. wow.
elaine: 19th Dec 2005 - 00:03 GMT
yeah, i was really struck by that one too, it looks like a prayermat posture, quite a double entendre
ian: 19th Dec 2005 - 00:51 GMT
I spent nearly an hour photographing the two men repairing the switching mechanism for the light-rail train. I felt that posture was appropriate because it was only a block or two from the (magnificently beautifully restored) Islamic Dawah Center. It fits in with my worker series -- my almost religious devotion to the technological infrastructure that powers our society. The people who build and repair devices like this really are our priests.
vz: do you know fernand leger?
Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 19th Dec 2005 - 14:19 GMT
Glorious pictures. Really atmospheric. A real treat. (The will to laud photos is with me, the command of the English language is not.)
ian: 19th Dec 2005 - 21:56 GMT
vz, after googling, I've seen and remembered several of his paintings, although I was not directly familiar with his name. Lately I've been thinking that maybe I should study 'art', at least, the accepted canon of work in fields that interest me, to give more perspective to the photographs I take. I guess my main influences are Sebastio Salgado and Henri Cartier-Bresson, but those are pretty obvious "big names" and just reflect my lack of depth of knowledge on artistic works.
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