i'm seldom without a camera.. it's as common an accessory as a wallet or phone. during casual walks thru town, there's seldom a goal.. and often the camera doesn't leave my side.. at other times, it acts as a sketchbook for ideas and possibilities
Jim,
The Leica M8 is eminently suited for relaxed streetwork. Although I suspect some digicams are fine for a lot of shots.
I like your ,(on the first look, rather simple) picture as it is symbolic of how our society has moved and the need for locking everything! I cannot comment much on the design of the image without seeing the print as this picture will only speak in a fine print, IMHO.
If anyone else showed it, I'd venture comments, but I do not know enough. There's no title and no other body of work to go with it. I do not know whether or not this is rendered as it will be for satisfactory printing or if this is the actual frame you will choose from all the pics you took, so I'd love to see more.
This industrialization of our cities and homes owes much to the Bauhaus
*** movement in Germany where it was considered that use of simplified approaches to building inddustrial workshops and factories would make homes affordable and better designed for a new generation. It was a fusion of crafts and materials to serve man rather than be a slave to how things were designed and put together in the past.
Picture: Los Angeles Times 2007_06_21
here
What came about was an integration of luxurious modern design including expensive materials with simple industrial metal roofs, glass block, windows and so forth.
Your small picture of something like a gate to a building, reminds of a Los Angeles Times article today
here about the resurgence of duplex homes for buyers so they could afford to buy a home.
Asher
***"Bauhaus 1919-33
The Bauhaus began with an utopian definition: "The building of the future" was to combine all the arts in ideal unity. This required a new type of artist beyond academic specialisation, for whom the Bauhaus would offer adequate education. In order to reach this goal, the founder, Walter Gropius, saw the necessity to develop new teaching methods and was convinced that the base for any art was to be found in handcraft: "the school will gradually turn into a workshop". Indeed, artists and craftsmen directed classes and production together at the Bauhaus in Weimar. This was intended to remove any distinction between fine arts and applied arts.
The reality of technical civilisation, however, led to requirements that could not only be fulfilled by a revalorisation of handcraft. In 1923, the Bauhaus reacted with a changed program, which was to mark its future image under the motto: "art and technology - a new unity". Industrial potentials were to be applied to satisfactory design standards, regarding both functional and aesthetic aspects. The Bauhaus workshops produced prototypes for mass production: from a single lamp to a complete dwelling.
Of course, the educational and social claim to a new configuration of life and its environment could not always be achieved. And the Bauhaus was not alone with this goal, but the name became a near synonym for this trend.
The history of the Bauhaus is by no means linear. The changes in directorship and amongst the teachers, artistic influence from far and wide, in combination with the political situation in which the Bauhaus experiment was staged, led to permanent transformation. The numerous consequences of this experiment still today flow into contemporary life." Source!
