official photography thread

**K-Rimes** · 03-04-2008 11:09 AM

Great construction, Wells.

**Steez Police** · 03-04-2008 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Wells

That's fair. Prepare to be dazzled by pretense.

I really like the idea of a photo series based on campus sex spots. However, if I didn't know what they were, they would be uninteresting to me. I like your other stuff much better, but I'm no professional.

**revelation2** · 03-04-2008 12:57 PM

I can't stand it when people take crappy pictures, turn them black and white, and call them art.

**lexx** · 03-04-2008 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by revelation2

They just look like black and white pictures of rooms to me.

this is where 'art' really comes into it.

Originally Posted by Steez Police

I really like the idea of a photo series based on campus sex spots. However, if I didn't know what they were, they would be uninteresting to me. I like your other stuff much better, but I'm no professional.

But this is the problem with the 'art world'. If you don't get it, it means nothing.

**Steez Police** · 03-04-2008 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by lexx

But this is the problem with the 'art world'. If you don't get it, it means nothing.

I get it, it just doesn't spark my interest. It's not something I would pay for or recommend to others. Unless when you say "get it," you mean it touches me, in which case, no, I don't "get it." But that's nothing against Wells' artistic integrity, I enjoy many of his other photographs, and I'm not trying to say he's bad at it or anything.

**Blix** · 03-04-2008 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by revelation2

Raw rules if you like spending more time in the photo lab messing with your pictures and working with akward file types with pictures that are way too large than spending time actually shooting. Jpeg basic ftw.

You obviously hasn`t any real experience working in RAW.

**longboardorific** · 03-04-2008 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by lexx

this is where 'art' really comes into it.

well whats art?

**Steez Police** · 03-04-2008 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by longboardorific

well whats art?

That's the million dollar question haha. Art to me is something that someone else was inspired to create, which also inspires me.

**lexx** · 03-04-2008 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by longboardorific

well whats art?

not selective color. sorry.

**lexx** · 03-04-2008 03:23 PM

I photograph places people've died. It's not about how people die, it's about how people grieve.

**longboardorific** · 03-04-2008 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by lexx

not selective color. sorry.

so anything selective color is automatically not art

**lexx** · 03-04-2008 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by longboardorific

so anything selective color is automatically not art

I refer you back to the picture Wells linked to. I don't think you're quite getting this

**fineout** · 03-04-2008 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by Steez Police

I get it, it just doesn't spark my interest. It's not something I would pay for or recommend to others. Unless when you say "get it," you mean it touches me, in which case, no, I don't "get it." But that's nothing against Wells' artistic integrity, I enjoy many of his other photographs, and I'm not trying to say he's bad at it or anything.

i think to understand Well's motive of the pictures before you can really understand the depth of the art in itself...i think..the way i saw it was just rooms, cool pics of rooms but just rooms, then when Wells said what the sequence of photos were about it gives you a whole different outlook on it which i thought changed the way the pictures were in general..cool pics man

**Steez Police** · 03-04-2008 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by fineout

i think to understand Well's motive of the pictures before you can really understand the depth of the art in itself...i think..the way i saw it was just rooms, cool pics of rooms but just rooms, then when Wells said what the sequence of photos were about it gives you a whole different outlook on it which i thought changed the way the pictures were in general..cool pics man

Oh yeah I totally agree with you there. The story behind the pictures definitely makes them much deeper and more interesting. As standalone pictures, though, they don't do much for me. I'd rather look at a picture and have it impact me without somebody having to say "this is what this picture is meant to be about." But once again that's nothing against Wells, I like the guy, for as little as I know about him.

**96789carver** · 03-04-2008 03:56 PM

here's a couple more. all part of a graffiti series.

10802874987325 points if you can guess where it is

**96789carver** · 03-04-2008 04:03 PM

and a couple nature related.....

**monkeyhead** · 03-04-2008 06:41 PM

I think it'll work this time...

**satori** · 03-04-2008 07:06 PM

wells: thanks! i appreciate the thought that's gone into your photos. going off of previous comments, "art" doesn't have to be "understood" and just because picasso's rose work doesn't appeal to me as much as his cubic, that doesn't mean i'm gonna say "it just looks like a dumb acrobat to me." even though this is a boarding forum, this thread is the best thing to be on here in ages imo (and i don't want to join a photo forum!). if some want to have an endless philosophical discussion about the definition of art (which is counterintuitive to its nature anyway) make a different thread. lets keep sharing wok and discussing it proactively. i'm not a "fan" of wells' public spaces shots but i respect him as a knowledgeable artist with a lot to offer and i look forward to seeing more from him and everyone else.

**Wells** · 03-04-2008 07:36 PM

I hate when people take everyday objects, turn them sideways, and call it art.

Anyway, I'll freely cop to the pretense charge. You have to know what you're looking at for those pictures to mean anything.