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Wednesday, 09 February 2005 |
Groups of images sometimes rely on images that have no meaning by themselves but have one when confronted with the other images in the group.
 Those two images are from the "Good girl/bad girl" series which was discussed yesterday and don't really stand on their own. I've realised that in part because in my physical portfolio I only have vertical 8x10 images, so the two horizontal images presented here yesterday are not in there. On the other hand I quite like the series so I kept these two in my portfolio.
People look through my portfolio, which is mainly model photos, both portraits and nudes, and my "nappa" series (bellybutton in finnish), and then, out of the blue, those two pictures of shoes...
 And people just don't get it. I kept the images there because in my mind they are still grouped with the two nudes, but for someone who doesn't know those horizontal images, those two shoe pictures just look odd, like plucked out of a catalog or an ad campain, and lack all the strength given to them by their association to the two nudes...
Now, the question is of course if those images are needed at all in the group if they cannot stand on their own, and this is open for debate. Can individual images in a strong group be allowed to be weak on their own ? |
