Zeppelin Fan

[Chris Calohan II]

Led Zeppelin Fan: Chris Calohan​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Led Zeppelin Fan: Chris Calohan​

Chris,

This picture is very remarkable for two major features - a wonderfully relaxed an amiable man with a Led Zeppelin fan shirt and then another fellow lying down, perhaps exhausted from moving in "stuff" and he's going to get his rest, no matter what.

The remarkable thing about the man on the right is that his sharp is angular, so much so, that it is like a simple geometric form, strong enough to compositionally balance the softer and so feeling image of the Zeppelin fan.

I spent a while on this picture, coming back a number of times and it has grown on me.

Asher

 

[Maggie Terlecki]

Led Zeppelin Fan: Chris Calohan​

There has got to be a story to accompany this... please tell!
Maggie

 

[Chris Calohan II]

Hi Maggie. I was doing a Photo walk in an older part of town when I stumbled on this shop of "re-purposed" goods - the old adage of "One Man's Treasure is Another's Junk" where I took the image I've included in this message and when I came outside into the bright sunlight, I found these two delivery guys who'd just finished unloading another treasure trove. As soon as the one fella saw the camera, he laid back out of the scene and the other just smiled.............

For me, this is street pretty much as good as it gets. Ambiguity abounds, the engagement exists without looking (or being) posed, and just enough information to know their story (keys).

One Man's Trash, Another's Treasure: Chris Calohan​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Maggie. I was doing a Photo walk in an older part of town when I stumbled on this shop of "re-purposed" goods - the old adage of "One Man's Treasure is Another's Junk" where I took the image I've included in this message and when I came outside into the bright sunlight, I found these two delivery guys who'd just finished unloading another treasure trove. As soon as the one fella saw the camera, he laid back out of the scene and the other just smiled.............

For me, this is street pretty much as good as it gets. Ambiguity abounds, the engagement exists without looking (or being) posed, and just enough information to know their story (keys).

One Man's Trash, Another's Treasure: Chris Calohan​

Chris,

With this presentation, you bring us into the actual room and we have personal contact with the collected "stuff". We can almost touch the windows and feel the ridges created by the brush as the paint was laid down over the window panes.

This is a most intimate experience.

Thanks.

Asher

 

[Chris Calohan II]

As per your request, a smaller version.

One Man's Trash, Another's Treasure: Chris Calohan​

 

[Asher Kelman]

As per your request, a smaller version.

One Man's Trash, Another's Treasure: Chris Calohan​

Thanks for this more distant view with surrounding wall space. Interestingly, we experience more of the organic way in which the image is constructed and how each element seems to have just the right fit into the whole composition. We get a sense that this is something whole, like "all of a wonderful cloud" an entire "picture of a mother and child" and the like.

However, at this size, not much different from the originally posted version, the feeling the the painter's brush strokes are now hardly present. What's more important is the contribution of that entire block of small window pane painted colors as a structural element key to the entire photographs success.

Seeing both sizes, the smaller one first, is akin to walking into a fine gallery and then one catches sight of the entire composition from across the room. Only when approaching close, do we get the experience and intimacy of the picture that was originally posted large.

Not often that the two views have so much different to offer.

Thanks for sharing this fascinating image. I have found it to be extraordinarily rich.

I'm sure the print will be a success, about 4 x 5 feet to allow folk to be immersed in the textures and seduced by the "poor man's stained glass window" you have discovered!

Asher