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Alas, not much traffic/people around on this foggy evening during the lock-down (nature's own black pro mist filter) ...
Vejrumstad near Struer, Denmark - January 19, 2021.
The question stands; why would this picture be different from a Real Estate advertisement?
Both would show a structure in an uncritical manner. The difference being -- a Real estate 'document' photo has an intent of use while a 'documentary' style New Topographics photo is a useless image. This is not semantics, but a purpose of use by the photographer at the time of making the image.
reference; Szarkowski.
Plus, "In a NT picture one cannot understand the structure without understanding the landscape and conversely."
Addendum: it is difficult for me to comprehend and subsequently digest the idea of ‘useless’ pictures being worthy of inclusion into the New Topographics genre. But I acquiesce to photography historians who are well adept in this field.
There's a disconnect between the cottage chic you'll find in magazines, and the reality of actually living in one. Having money to burn helps, though. Seen in western Ireland.
Documentary style vs. Document photo. Because it is a 'useless' image it falls into the 'documentary style' category of photography.
I present this picture to regain favor in the New Topographics community. Especially after the expressive subjectivity "stagecraft" of my previous two photos.
Amsterdam's huge cruise ship port provides a dramatic setting for a lone individual crossing a light-filled space.
a fleeting symmetry between two strangers separated by glass, each absorbed in a private ritual — one reaching for the sky, the other lost in the glow of her screen. between them floats a promise: crafted by hand & heart.
Russians losing their war in Ukraine and losing badly. Nuclear terrorism did not work out for them at Chornobyl and they want to play the same game at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is much bigger than Chornobyl. It is so unfortunate that we have to share out the beautiful planet with such idiots...
The circus in in town, and the back of their ticket booth trailer is backed up against the Salthill, Galway, Ireland bottle bank. Struck me funny for some reason!
Sambeke, a proud Maasai herder (warrior age-set), comes from a small pastoral settlement nestled in the Kenyan foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro (near Amboseli National Park, Rift Valley Province). He travels each year to the island of Lamu off Keyna’s Swahili Coast to work as a security guard. The money he earns goes towards the upkeep of his family and cattle back in the homeland. Elegently adorned with glass-beaded collars and stretched earlobes with glass-beaded sleeves.
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Russians losing their war in Ukraine and losing badly. Nuclear terrorism did not work out for them at Chornobyl and they want to play the same game at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is much bigger than Chornobyl. It is so unfortunate that we have to share out the beautiful planet with such idiots...
shot taken from television...
it 's a picture out of a movie shown in a documentary
they had been showing beautiful scenes of Toscany...
it wasn 't about the film, something to do with the actress,
I think with whom the politician had an affair with longtime ago
then they had moved to Toscany...
I was too much concentrating on getting some pictures
by the time I had pushed button...
they obviously had been gliding to the next picture of a crowd
it 's storming out here..; we got wind of 100 km/h !!
disturbing sounds, yeah...
couldn 't decide on my pictures of the indoor daffodils,
they just weren 't saying much
this is also indoor... much more interesting!!!
wondering what he 's saying to her....
here's what Harry Bellafonte sings to Nana Mouskouri and vice versa... it 's especially nice on disturbing stormy autumnlike winter days and nights... should have thought of listening to it before, but anyway, glad that I found it now... something to hold on to!