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make fun if you so desire, but this is beautiful:

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― sapateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(note teachers poking head in on left side of frame)

(note children suppressing giggles)

(note words on placard)

(note smiles)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(note lovely sun-dappled composition)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(note natural vanishing point in near-center of frame)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

awww, that really is lovely.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

here's another photo i adore:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/photos/images/thewedding.jpg

(though its effect is much more ambiguous)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

except doesn't it look, with the way her name and age are on there, that it's the sign all the kids are using, and they just change the name on it?

am I being an asshole? I just want them all to have different messages!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(it's like a still from a hal hartley movie)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(what is happening in that wedding photo? there is a strange combination of implied violence and restraint.)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

But, shit, now she can hear what the other kids are saying about her behind her back.

(My cold. cold heart was warmed, though, really.)

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I would have preferred if he held her hand rather then her wrist. It has a bit of a 'you're nicked' vibe about it.

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― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

And it looks like the cake is wearing pince nez.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(actually, about that first photo, it's how the natural vanishing point [established in part by the row of hanging flower pots in upper right] settles just behind the girl. i would love to have taken a photo like this.)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(this is the thread where amateur!!st waxes philosophical about the internal composition of random photos found on the web.)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

they both have manhands.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(that thing on top of the wedding cake looks like a auto manufacturer logo)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking that, too. Maybe they're farmers.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(i want to write a short film based around various theories of how that wedding photo came to be.)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.district37e.org/hearingaids01.jpg

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, so that girl is just whooping it up in every photo, then, I guess.

― roxy, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/haw2.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.redseaboats.hu/Images/Underwater/Legal/hammerhead_shark.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(note natural vanishing point in near-center of frame)

the second photo doesn't have that serene, floaty feeling, but it's only with the second one that i noticed that she isn't smiling. in the second photo, it looks like the photographer was focusing on the boy's head. maybe the symmetry was a function of the way the girl was standing!

― youn, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

they both have manhands...

I was kind of thinking the same thing, literally. Sure that's not a gay wedding?

And now the kids are implying that life has no meaning without the ability to hear. I guess Helen Keller should've just been euthanized.

On the other hand, I'm glad that my spare change for breath mints at the pizza parlor has paid off for these Lions recipients.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Eugene Richards' Americans We, p. 33, "Sabu's Home" if you're in or near a library.

eventually I'll get around to scanning it

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.foundmagazine.com/photos/images/thewedding.jpg
"NO!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I find that photo kinda disturbing, actually. It doesn't suggest love and devotion so much as dominance and possession.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

it looks like the white sleeved hand wants to muck around with the cake but the navy sleeve thinks not.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There's something about the lighting in that cake photo that makes it look like a Rockwell painting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

or maybe the navy sleeve wants to plonk the white sleeve hand in the cake?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Either it's a gay wedding or the groom married his mom.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"No mother, I will not let you ruin the cake!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Its a great photo! You could come up with 101 stories as to whats going on. I love that kind of stuff.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I find that photo kinda disturbing, actually. It doesn't suggest love and devotion so much as dominance and possession.

what's disturbing is that it suggests all of these things, somehow...

the only "problem" with the photo is the cast shadow on the cake. otherwise it's perfect.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to spoil the fun (oh hell yeah, it's to spoil the fun), but I think the point of the photo is to get both wedding bands in the photo. Clumsy as hell, though.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a fine line between clumsiness and austere beauty

(i think winston churchill said that)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is the sort of errant clumsiness up with which I will not put!"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a fine line between clumsiness and austere beauty

actually this could be jandek's motto

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

from the left edge, the arm in white looks lifeless and posed. it's only at the wrist that you can feel its force. but the grasp of the other hand seems casual.

― youn, Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the arm in navy looks a bit like on of those fake arms that you hang out of a car boot as a hilarious prank.

i don't like that photo, it gives me the impression the groom is tersely telling the bride how to hold her hand "come on we need a photo of the rings" type of thing and just grabbed her wrist. funny the impression you can get from a snapshot of time.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i imagine a long and lifeless marriage ahead of them

maybe she was actually in love with someone else? but he left her for one week and she became pregnant by the man in the blue sportcoat?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

loveless, i mean loveless

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

aside from hal hartley it reminds me of robert bresson in that it seems to capture the highly charged, ambivalent essence of something by focusing on a piece rather than the whole.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

her hand looks so stiff and uncomfortable, that's how it fits into hal hartley

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Both AM's photos are pretty startling. (more analysis, please!)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The hand at the very edge, the other one, seems sorta Bressony too?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i think that other hand is one reason why it looks quite awkward. because it means the groom is sort of facing away from the camera and not really facing the bride either

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

it's interesting how you can intuit a body position from a close-up of two arms. i think that accounts for the sense of lovelessness: they aren't facing each other but "performing" a ritual for the camera. perhaps if we saw their faces, they'd be smiling and we'd have a different interpretation.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

or if you could see the rest of the room, maybe they are talking to someone else and laughing.... maybe that would tell us that the photo isn't actually posed. maybe he's asking her to wait while someone passes him the knife so they can cut the cake.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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― amateur!!st, Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Sep/20049236334824102659643.jpg

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

not that kind of touching dan

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Sorry.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the hand in the white sleeve is definitely a man's! not only is it giant and lumpy but there is no engagement ring. also, the wedding bands are exactly the same. usually the bride's ring is more delicate and often bejeweled. don't get me started on the cuticles! jesus, i thought gay men were supposed to be more aware of personal hygiene and grooming habits! moisturize you foolish lovers!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Told you so.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.demolitionkitchen.com/zono/freebies/comix/ComikzPagesfolder/SleepofReason/images/BonBons.gif

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

is the loast one FEZ? or DOnna?

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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