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03/07/2014 08:58:22 AM |
| I feel like I have an attachment to this set of photos. Having grown up in and around the ocean, I can remember many hours of being alone in the surf and just...thinking. That's what these pictures make me recall. There's definitely a loneliness in this set, which is accentuated by your choice of music, but for me there's a nice familiarity as well. |
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03/04/2014 07:39:49 PM |
Lev, this is so nostalgic that it gives the sweet pain that we call Proustian.
How one can smell the ocean, hear along the beautiful music the shrills of the birds and the hiss of the waves lays in the magic of the photographer.
Congratulations for a splendid essay. |
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03/04/2014 01:28:50 PM |
| very moving. the overcast, the sea, the wall, the sand, the pier, undulating like the cello, and then the discrete piano notes of people, of birds. a wonderful human seeing. a poem of the place. |
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03/04/2014 11:15:43 AM |
Beautiful shades of gray! That usually doesn't come to mind when I think of San Diego. I like the progression of images along with the music you chose. A very reflective collection.
Message edited by author 2014-03-04 14:33:47. |
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03/03/2014 06:19:07 PM |
Beautiful music.
Funny, as I was watching this, I thought of the sand as a canvas that was constantly creating new paintings on itself. That's the sort of effect that only an essay can create. |
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03/03/2014 02:15:02 PM |
| It felt like spinning in a never-ending circle, and the scenery just rolls on and on, showing all life through concrete-coloured glasses. |
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03/03/2014 05:01:38 AM |
That Issuu magazine template is a little unfriendly to very slow connections (which is what I have), but against that it provides a very real magazine feel.
These are beautiful photographs a little reminiscent of Magnum photographer Harry Gruyert's 'Rivages' stuff. Your Pacific Beach photographs are quiet, introspective and meticulously objective. That makes them a little too passive for my own roughhouse tastes, but I think that that may be a plus rather than a minus when it comes to wide appreciation of your work in this essay.
I deeply admire this kind of quiet, almost academic level of detached observation, but I simply can't do it myself. The individual photographs are superbly seen and executed, though I found I related to them more successfully as individual photographs than as a collection. That might be because my glacial connection couldn't cope with Issuu, or maybe I'm just slow myself. My favourite image was actually this cover shot. Thank you. |
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