Tate Modern Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

Nowadays museums are not just places for showing art but also public spaces where the cafe is a main attraction. Tate Modern is an impressive example, a great public space almost free from art, at the time of this photo just a huge Louise Bourgeois spider with people strolling about in between its legs.

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khmelins (960) 2004-11-30 16:41

Great compo. The division, the noise, the blur.
And i really like the colors here.
Maybe some cropping from the corners (i´m not sure..)?
regards,
anton

Xalkida (11740) 2004-11-30 17:21

It looks very busy! You have catch the motion of the visitors very well!

sayzey (2358) 2004-11-30 19:56

busy strange shot, I havent visited the tate but I woudl like to. It looks like a weird place with some people loking around, and one guy just sat, maybe reading or something.

Im enjoying abstract type shots oer and more recently and this is an example of somethgin origional and differnt to photos I normall appreciate. Well done

Luko (13880) 2004-12-01 7:55

I always like split images, it's like looking at a scene with different point of views at the same time. Relections also introduce a questionning about what is reality and what is reflected I still can't get the clue about what you've done here...

I specially praise the overall homogenous cold color cast, also a nice feature with the last guy sat and looking downwards located in the end of the pic, it's an unexpected ending.

btw, nice lens and old school apparatus you got there, Torben... full manual discreet camera and bright lens photgraphy inside a museum : been there, done that... ;-D

avigur_11 (21271) 2004-12-01 22:54

A very impressive shot, Torben and a very good composition. I like the blue and purple colors that rule in this images. I can imagine the spider. Beautiful one.

wilkinsonsg (8644) 2004-12-02 11:51

I like the split image approach - the colours and blur add to the feeling of a 'modern' space to explore :)

dsidwell (9745) 2004-12-02 12:35

It's been too long, Torben! It is fun to see your exciting, graphic style, on display here, in which people and blur and grain all become objects of study in and of themselves.

Isabelle (9014) 2004-12-02 18:36

what strikes me the most in your composition is the way you created suspense by not showing the art piece but the people looking at it. the guy mesmerized by his readings is a nice, refreshing and unexpected touch which makes me almost ask myself the reasons for the existence of museums...
colors are stupendous. let me sit, take a british beer and enjoy your trip... (oh, there´ll be more to come, won´t it?)

Ebbe (9571) 2004-12-04 14:50

This one is special, like two picture not too strongly connected to each other. A lot of things going on with the people but apart from them it is very clean. The light and the color of it is a mystery too, attracts attention somehow.

joseelias (367) 2004-12-06 9:21

A Torben brandmark photo! :-)

Great colors, motion blur, high-contrast in a composition, which do not fitting the "rules", get very magnetic to the eyes.

Great action and optical illusion! Interesting reflections about the cameras and your rediscover.

Saar (571) 2005-03-22 13:06

Hey Torben, what a funny shot. Strange, different, interesting. I Like it! But what's the thing in the middle? It's almost like you put two different pics together..
Nice.

cheers sarah

kinginexile (2440) 2005-07-14 2:17

Hi, Torben

Thanks for your appreciation earlier, I understand what you liked about my cricket shot, you are very creative in your shooting angles, and working a lot on strong contrasts, color-wise. We may not always "get" it at first, but have to recognize a personal vision, where what is in front of your eyes is to be re-interpreted thru your own subjectivity, that is your own artistry.

This one is superb, what you inspire out of it has little to do with the reality of the scene itself if seen objectively. Not your concern at all, I think. What I see in it is not in the shot, it's the multiplicity of thoughts, stances and concerns each individual may have, alone or talking to their companion,which the artificial light, the distance created from the window you shoot and the movement blurs tell us, is ephemeral.
Indeed, if we could record everything that we think, visiting a museum, it would also have to be with quirkiness of thought than just concentration on the objects of Art. So here, you induced abstraction out of a scene shot objectively, so to speak, since your angle is plain frontal.

I need an aspirin now :-), but thanks all the same, very thought provoking shot.