Comments on: 127 – Klagenfurt, Where I was Born http://manessinger.com/2007/02/127-klagenfurt-where-i-was-born.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=127-klagenfurt-where-i-was-born The Daily Photography – One image per day, shot that day Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Flexx http://manessinger.com/2007/02/127-klagenfurt-where-i-was-born.html/comment-page-1#comment-1335 Flexx Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:18:00 +0000 http://manessinger.com/?p=129#comment-1335 I like that one, call me simple, but the first thing I saw in it, and the simple reason why I like it is that it looks just like a frowning face waring a wizards hat. Even better, the alit windows look like glowing mad eyes that fit the wizards' frown nicely.<br/><br/>Go figure. I like that one, call me simple, but the first thing I saw in it, and the simple reason why I like it is that it looks just like a frowning face waring a wizards hat. Even better, the alit windows look like glowing mad eyes that fit the wizards’ frown nicely.

Go figure.

]]> By: Ted Byrne http://manessinger.com/2007/02/127-klagenfurt-where-i-was-born.html/comment-page-1#comment-1334 Ted Byrne Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:02:00 +0000 http://manessinger.com/?p=129#comment-1334 It's especially interesting intellectually to see a photographer let down his frames to show us more of the physical parts of the total culture which surrounds him. So often we rigorously frame things so that the commonplace is excised. For the first time I am seeing how the pieces you see each day fit together. It is something I like yet, alas, I fail to do myself. Somehow the commonplace seems so banal to us, yet will seem almost exotic to others. <br/>And this image is anything but banal. I do wonder though why there is traffic only for a block around that turret in the distance. Is it because of the length of your late exposure? If so, what became of the headlight streaks? <br/>As for narrowing of minds that you decry in your daily story. It appears to me that culture swings in twenty/thirty year cycles. This rightward swing is nowhere near the evangelism of the Fifties and Thirties. Nor of the "Victorian" ages before. <br/>But each swing is uncomfortable to a significant part of our populations. Each carries pain for folks who are swatted by the wrecking ball of the dialectic. <br/>Thanks for sharing,<br/>Ted<br/><br/>http://imagefiction.blogspot.com<br/>http://homepage.mac.com/byrneprintmaker/ It’s especially interesting intellectually to see a photographer let down his frames to show us more of the physical parts of the total culture which surrounds him. So often we rigorously frame things so that the commonplace is excised. For the first time I am seeing how the pieces you see each day fit together. It is something I like yet, alas, I fail to do myself. Somehow the commonplace seems so banal to us, yet will seem almost exotic to others.
And this image is anything but banal. I do wonder though why there is traffic only for a block around that turret in the distance. Is it because of the length of your late exposure? If so, what became of the headlight streaks?
As for narrowing of minds that you decry in your daily story. It appears to me that culture swings in twenty/thirty year cycles. This rightward swing is nowhere near the evangelism of the Fifties and Thirties. Nor of the “Victorian” ages before.
But each swing is uncomfortable to a significant part of our populations. Each carries pain for folks who are swatted by the wrecking ball of the dialectic.
Thanks for sharing,
Ted

http://imagefiction.blogspot.com
http://homepage.mac.com/byrneprintmaker/

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