Last image for this month:
Bill Peifer, "Tyshaun: A Memorial"
The subject matter of this image is quite moving, but were it not for
the description, I really wouldn't have known what this was about. I
can't read the white sign, but maybe that's the scan, and it's much
sharper in the original print. To be honest with you, Bill, when I
first looked at it, I thought that the objects hanging on the fence was
laundry or something. Then, upon closer inspection, before reading your
description, I thought maybe it was some sort of a yard sale or
something - I just couldn't make out what's hanging there.
The graffiti on the sidewalk, other than the "I love you T.Y." (which
could be anything) really doesn't add much to the meaning of the image.
The image seems very cluttered to me; so much happening that it's hard
to focus in on any one thing to get a feel for what's going on.
I really hate to dump on your image this way, but I have to be honest
about how the image moves me. It simply doesn't "stand on its own" and
tell a story in and of itself, imho. Maybe that's not a fair criticism,
but the ability of an image to speak in and of itself is important to me
in this type of a gallery, and I just don't feel that.
I think that perhaps seeing the image displayed as a photo essay, along
with a number of the other images that you took of the memorial would
have been very effective, but alone, well, I'm just not sure...
regards,
frank
--
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert
Oppenheimer
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