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image notes: downtown, on the square. reminds me of a movie set.
One of the ongoing projects of modern art, and probably its most serious, is to tell what it’s really like to be living here now. Not what it’s like on television or in advertisements, not what it’s like to be a cohort, but what it’s like to be a man or a woman in that unique body that’s always living an odd life. Against the forces of false persuasion the artist offers an undeniable sort of truth, stated in simple human terms, minus the jargon and the emblems of expertise and false authority. It’s always a voice and the voice always says: this is how it is for me, and I hope you understand.
— John Rosenthal
11 Comments
Elaine-
August 14, 2012i don’t know why, but this picture makes my soul sing… maybe angels can come in the shape of buildings, and lie down and be the streets we walk on….
joshi daniel
August 15, 2012a cinematic touch :)
gentse koppen
August 15, 2012great colors in this one
yz
August 15, 2012love the pale colors, great mood
rian
August 15, 2012it does look like a movie set without anybody on it.. :) nice catch!
Diane
August 15, 2012I can see how it reminds you of a movie set. I love that the barber shop still has the barber pole. I also love the architectural details of the curved upper window (or at the least the brick is curved) plus that one door with its curved top mirroring the windows above.
Nick
August 16, 2012Great looking barber shop!
george
August 17, 2012I’m with Diane – it looks like the walls are just a façade – with nothing behind except scaffold.
Uwe
August 18, 2012Love the (slightly) apocalyptic, abandoned expression.
Christopher
August 30, 2012Excellent shot Sherri–there’s a real feeling of loneliness I get from this image
shoreacres
September 5, 2012The quotation is wonderful, and certainly works for a writer as well as for a photographer or artist. And it’s a tremendous bit of affirmation for someone who wrote, once upon a time,
“Speaking as directly and intimately as possible, the essayist says, “Here is my interpretation of my vision. This is how I understand my experience. I have come to believe this, or that, about these oddities of life which lie strewn about our years, and I offer my conclusions to you.”
I think I may need to re-read, revise and re-post my raison d’etre essay.