Burntimage
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• 2016-01-30T06:38:00+00:00 •
a picture painting a thousand words?
I have noticed a trend developing over the past 18 months or so whereby more and more photographers and models are adding spurious, insipid faux-poetry to their images.
Whilst an image title is just about acceptable this trend of underpinning the image with three or four lines of waffly, emotional nonsense, mostly of the saccherine-philosophical bent really is starting to grate on me and far from enhancing the narrative of the image detracts from it. If the image needs this pseudo explanation then, for me, it's a sign that the author is attempting to imbue their image with a gravitas that they have failed to capture in the picture and often seems little more than an attempt to convince the viewer that the work has some kind of meaning.
Simple as I am, an image exists (for me) to interest me and if it provokes an emotional response or an intellectual reaction then so be it but let that response rest with the viewer. The addition of some poorly written nonsense does not invest the image with more importance or depth or resonance.
It's in the same vein as photographers attaching the word art before nude in an effort to elevate their work, in the eyes of the viewer, and convince said viewer that they took the picture not because they enjoy shooting (nude) women rather that they are gifting a jaded world some deep and insightful wisdom about life. They're not, they're just spouting desperately pretentious, poorly conceived, laboriously written bollocks.
I have noticed a trend developing over the past 18 months or so whereby more and more photographers and models are adding spurious, insipid faux-poetry to their images.
Whilst an image title is just about acceptable this trend of underpinning the image with three or four lines of waffly, emotional nonsense, mostly of the saccherine-philosophical bent really is starting to grate on me and far from enhancing the narrative of the image detracts from it. If the image needs this pseudo explanation then, for me, it's a sign that the author is attempting to imbue their image with a gravitas that they have failed to capture in the picture and often seems little more than an attempt to convince the viewer that the work has some kind of meaning.
Simple as I am, an image exists (for me) to interest me and if it provokes an emotional response or an intellectual reaction then so be it but let that response rest with the viewer. The addition of some poorly written nonsense does not invest the image with more importance or depth or resonance.
It's in the same vein as photographers attaching the word art before nude in an effort to elevate their work, in the eyes of the viewer, and convince said viewer that they took the picture not because they enjoy shooting (nude) women rather that they are gifting a jaded world some deep and insightful wisdom about life. They're not, they're just spouting desperately pretentious, poorly conceived, laboriously written bollocks.
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