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Hello everyone. Nice to be back
Irakly Shanidze
www.shanidze.com/en
Welcome back !
M
Mauro.B wrote:
Welcome back !
M
and a warm welcome from me also irakley.
i do recall your name being mentioned whenever there was talk on the forum of past and previous wonderful photographers that no longer hang around the forum anymore.
maybe this will be another step into bringing back some of the names missing from here, some i can remember, some i never came across.
best
pc
http://www.pbase.com/meagre_offerings/street_photography
also ex secretary/treasurer and only member of the `lesser leica owners club`.
I am speechless.
Where is your signature, I mean the surreal or alienating elements?
Or is it that you come up with such a photo?
My mind needs some Iraklyan ingredients to get into gear (and to be set on the wrong track).
Welcome back. I've missed your images and your thoughts.
Jim Preisch
jamespreisch.blogspot.com
Landscapes? Landscapes?
I don't see no girls.
Welcome back.
Hey Irakly good to see you back.
There's been a lot of tech talk here recently so It would great to get back to contemplating some actual photography !!!
cheers.
Great to see you back, Irakly! Looking forward to stopping by more often and being inspired by your images.
Cheers!
-raaj
'Change is not Mandatory, you don't have to Survive...'
SeekingLight.net
Thank you gentlemen. I won't let you down
Technically, this is not a Leica picture, but it kind of fits the occasion. So, Leica aficionados, please excuse me for such a blatant breach of protocol
Irakly Shanidze
www.shanidze.com/en
Brilliant as always, the Sony is more dominant !
Welcome back!. It prompts my photographic mind working harder again....:-))
Best,
Choi
welcome back and nice image
John aka bosjohn21
Irakly Shanidze wrote:
Welcome back Irakly ..... : fascinating , creative , deep and meaningful , as always .
Regards , Gianluca
The subject matter of the photo is composed of a model in the guise of a mermaid, an old sailing ship in the green countryside and some visitors of today. Some traditional attributes of a mermaid strike the eye: her long blond hair, a teardrop signifying unhappiness, a fish referring to her realm, and the sailing ship (and, by implication, its crew) as the object of her alluring powers. The association of the ship with the mermaid is supported by the curvaceous figurehead – the patroness of the ship and also the projection surface of the unsatisfied desires of the sailors. Correspondingly, the mermaid does not only exert her power over the ship and the seducible men, she is equally subject to an unsatisfied desire, even though human sexuality is beyond her possibilities. Her pose and the teardrop on her cheek express this impossible desire and her knowing about it. The conspicuous way she is lying on the soil exhibits, as it were, the affinity of her imagined womb – that's what her curved strands of hairs ending in a Y-shape indicate – to mother earth, the origin of life. Similarly, the gestures of her hands and the water bowl with the fish can be read along these lines.
From a viewpoint of cultural history a depiction of a mermaid making essential use of sexual symbols, esp. referring to the opening of the womb and the seed of life is hardly surprising; cf. http://feminismandreligion.com/2013/11/04/mermaid-goddess-of-the-sea-by-carol-p-christ/ Thus, the thumb of the mermaid's right hand may be priapic, the V-shape gesture of her left may be understood correspondingly, the water bowl may be an appearance of mother earth's "womb of life", and the fish may be both, a phallic symbol and, enabled by Plutarch's narration about a fish that swallowed Osiris' p-n-s*, a symbol of its complement. What we see, then, as the subject matter belongs together in one way or the other, but is still surreal in the sense that reality elements and fantasy are integrated to a bizarre scenery.
What, accordingly, is the subject of the photo? At least, it comprises themes such as unfulfilled sexuality, the attraction of the mysterious other, inner disunity and the search for identity. The ultimate subject, however, is the revival of the viewer's imagination by the artistic manner of representation. Irakly uses e. g. a seemingly minor element in the photo, the visitors of today, as an alienating means. They break the "fourth wall" by destroying the illusion that the staged scene is altogether fairytale-like, and thus Irakly stimulates the viewer to see it rather "experimentally", that is to say as one realization of many possible ones. Could not the model equally play the woman of today playing the mermaid of the myth as a parable instead of playing the mermaid of the myth wishfully representing herself a woman? Could not the model break character by addressing the viewer or doesn't she do that already by her highly symbolic pose and gestures? Questions upon questions, a stimulus of the imagination. At least some of Irakly's photos are like a never-ending love-affair.
* the written-out word is banned, how virtuous
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