Tenement Bedroom

[Mike Lamb]

Chicago - 2013

 

[bribrius]

I think we have already seen this one. Unless it was similar. I liked it. could use a couple homeless people shooting up and stuff or garbage scattered around the floor, at least ONE heroin shooter. But in general. I really liked it.

 

[Mike Lamb]

Thanks, Bri. I did post this before. I made some perspective changes and decided to re-post.

 

[fjrabon]

what are you trying to communicate with this image?

 

[Mike Lamb]

what are you trying to communicate with this image?

Sorry. I don't explain my work. It speaks for itself or it fails to.

 

[fjrabon]

what are you trying to communicate with this image?

Sorry. I don't explain my work. It speaks for itself or it fails to.

If you have any desire to learn/get better at your craft, that's a silly approach to take. Nobody will ever be able to help you if we have no idea what your artistic goal was with the image.

An image can fail in multiple ways, it can fail because the message doesn't resonate with people, or it can fail because the image doesn't effectively communicate the artist's intended message. Those problems have different fixes. One is a problem of vision, the other a problem of execution.

To the extent that this image is not a perfect work of art (do you think it is?) nobody will be able to help you improve if we don't know what your goal with it was. We don't know if your goal is something that fails to resonate, but you perfectly achieved your goal, or if your goal would have resonated, but you didn't execute the image in such a way that it communicated the goal.

I get for a "finished and presented" work of art taking such an attitude. I wouldn't expect somebody attempting to sell an image to explain their work. But these forums typically have C+C as a defining characteristic (unless you're in just for fun). As such, typically learning and understanding is better aided by honest and open communication and discussion.

What was your goal in posting this image to this forum? Praise, learning, something else?

 

[qleak]

I think there is value in allowing others to interpret art in their own way.

Though it is unclear why the poster is posting it to the website. It could be helpful to know so we could comment accordingly.

 

[JacaRanda]

Wow. Not fair to say it is silly imo. Seems to be a choice. Do we all learn the same way? Who wrote the book on the best way to learn by posting in a forum?

 

[Mike Lamb]

what are you trying to communicate with this image?

Sorry. I don't explain my work. It speaks for itself or it fails to.

If you have any desire to learn/get better at your craft, that's a silly approach to take. Nobody will ever be able to help you if we have no idea what your artistic goal was with the image.

An image can fail in multiple ways, it can fail because the message doesn't resonate with people, or it can fail because the image doesn't effectively communicate the artist's intended message. Those problems have different fixes. One is a problem of vision, the other a problem of execution.

To the extent that this image is not a perfect work of art (do you think it is?) nobody will be able to help you improve if we don't know what your goal with it was. We don't know if your goal is something that fails to resonate, but you perfectly achieved your goal, or if your goal would have resonated, but you didn't execute the image in such a way that it communicated the goal.

I get for a "finished and presented" work of art taking such an attitude. I wouldn't expect somebody attempting to sell an image to explain their work. But these forums typically have C+C as a defining characteristic (unless you're in just for fun). As such, typically learning and understanding is better aided by honest and open communication and discussion.

What was your goal in posting this image to this forum? Praise, learning, something else?

Thanks for your remarks. I find that for the most part, people who want to explain the meaning of their images or explain why they took a picture are just partaking in self-stroking blather. I'm not interested, and I disagree with just about everything you said.

Any remarks about the image help me, and you decided to make none which is fine.

 

[fjrabon]

what are you trying to communicate with this image?

Sorry. I don't explain my work. It speaks for itself or it fails to.

If you have any desire to learn/get better at your craft, that's a silly approach to take. Nobody will ever be able to help you if we have no idea what your artistic goal was with the image.

An image can fail in multiple ways, it can fail because the message doesn't resonate with people, or it can fail because the image doesn't effectively communicate the artist's intended message. Those problems have different fixes. One is a problem of vision, the other a problem of execution.

To the extent that this image is not a perfect work of art (do you think it is?) nobody will be able to help you improve if we don't know what your goal with it was. We don't know if your goal is something that fails to resonate, but you perfectly achieved your goal, or if your goal would have resonated, but you didn't execute the image in such a way that it communicated the goal.

I get for a "finished and presented" work of art taking such an attitude. I wouldn't expect somebody attempting to sell an image to explain their work. But these forums typically have C+C as a defining characteristic (unless you're in just for fun). As such, typically learning and understanding is better aided by honest and open communication and discussion.

What was your goal in posting this image to this forum? Praise, learning, something else?

Thanks for your remarks. I find that for the most part, people who want to explain the meaning of their images or explain why they took a picture are just partaking in self-stroking blather. I'm not interested, and I disagree with just about everything you said.

Any remarks about the image help me, and you decided to make none which is fine.

There's nothing to remark on. It's a window, a radiator, a brick wall and a flash. It doesn't communicate anything but those things. There's no story here that I can see, which is why I asked. If your goal was to communicate those things mission accomplished.

You don't believe art is worth discussion? I find posting on a photography board kind of weird if you think you discussing your own work is blather.

 

[sleist]

This image conveys a feeling of desperation - perhaps depression.
It's a place you want to escape from. The window is there, but is blocked by bricks.
Not really blocked though, it just seems that way. How life feels sometimes - like there's no way out.
But, if you get up and go to the window, perhaps it's not as hopeless as it seems.

I like the dingy feel of the composition. The harsh flash increases that sensation.
I think the distortion distracts, buts other may feel like it adds something.

An interesting shot.

 

[qleak]

I like the lines going in toward the window focusing my attention there. I find the verticals being askew detracts my attention slightly from the window and draws my eye out of the frame.

The muted color space is nice, but i'm not sure the dirty details on the floor add anything for me. I don't get very excited by symbolism in photographs, I don't know for sure that's what your intention is either. So overall this one falls slightly short for me.

I really like the white frame in this one when I click on the image

 

[bribrius]

Thanks, Bri. I did post this before. I made some perspective changes and decided to re-post.

Resonates with me some, because i spent many a night in a apartment similar to that. If the window was turned left so it faced the brick building straight on. And the walls were still painted white but at least more recently painted so the cracks weren't as obvious it would be REAL close. So i look at this and i am there again. Hearing the street traffic out front, the people walking up and down the hall outside the apartment going to theirs. Muffled voices. Thinking of the dripping faucet sound in the 1940's sink with yellow and brown deposits running up it and around the drain from the water calcium over the years. The claw bath tub (no shower). Since it was over the bar often hearing the people walking down the alley way between to vomit, take a piss or often have sex in the alley do a drug transaction. Opening the window trying to get a little fresh air, but there really isn't any especially in the summer. And about everything woodwork was painted over multiple times, to the point it was caked on paint and often flaking off. Whoever painting it dripping globs on the floor here and there. .

Basically, not sure what you are going for. But it brings me back there.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Sometimes the simplicity of a photo can work. This seems to get the essence of the place, the atmosphere there.

I like the use of pattern and texture. I'm not so sure about the use of space because the door seems a little too far to the left and there seems to be too much space to the right. I feel like I want to see it from in a little closer. The brick seems somewhat lacking in color although of course I don't know what it actually looked like thru the window. I like the perspective of the wall at an angle seen thru the window.

 

[Fred Berg]

No way out. No prospects. Can't see a future. I feel the walls are closing in on me.

A strong story-telling potential to this, imo.