Wednesday, July 30, 2008
News / Chicagoland Up with other people/YouShoot
Posted by Whet Moser on Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:34 PM
I'm stepping away from the blog entirely for a few days, and will be dialing down my participation for awhile thereafter. My divided attentions are needed on some major projects, but I also need to recharge a bit, or at least work up the energy to be a control freak on some other stuff, and reinvest myself in some other interests. And catch up on correspondence (private to lots of people: sorry). So you should, in my stead, start seeing some other Reader voices on here, which I trust will keep you entertained.
Oh, and: I haven't posted any pictures in awhile, so I wanted to draw your attention to a couple lovely, humane galleries of portraits by only-connect, taken at Pitchfork and Sherman Park. Here are a couple, but you won't get the full effect without browsing the galleries. These kind of pictures make me want to be less of an agoraphobe.
To get all poor-man's-Susan-Sontag for a moment: I think the beauty of them is their stasis. Most festival and concert pictures are about mass and movement (like this one, from the same set), about lots of people doing crazy things, so they emphasize action. By shooting in tight focus, from the neck up, and, most importantly, with total, "boring" symmetry (asymmetry, as Blair Kamin emphasizes, creates motion), these photos are about individual people and stillness, an unconventional and riveting choice for an event like Pitchfork.
Showing 1-2 of 2
Harold Henderson left a note like this about 3 months ago, and has only been spotted writing about genealogy ever since. Please keep up the good work here. This is a very informative site. JBP
Agreed. Don't go far, Whet.
Latest in The Blog
-
Too New to Review: Prairie Fire, Leo's Coney Island, the Southern, Revolution Brewing Company, and More
Prairie Fire, Leo's Coney Island of Chicago, the Southern, and other restaurants too new to review.
- Feb 8, 2010
-
Fewer Shoes on the North Side
Times are tough for shoe stores too.
- Feb 8, 2010
-
When Golden Earring Were Good
Wait, Golden Earring was good?
- Feb 8, 2010
- More»
Author Archives
-
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday, 1/19
Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- Jan 19, 2010
-
Spoonbread: Ain't nothin' wrong with that
A Thanksgiving-appropriate cornbread substitution.
- Nov 24, 2009
-
From the Archives: Getting the Picture
From 1988: John Conroy on veteran news photographers Bob Ringham and Jack Lenahan.
- Dec 16, 2009
- More»
Top Commenters
Comments (2) RSS