We're living in the MTV generation where attention spans are often shorter. Many new films and music videos contain fast cuts to feed the drive for visual stimulation. There is a publishing house in the uk that has just released a series of classic novels which have been heavily edited and condensed to make it easier for the reader, Moby Dick being one of them. One of the best novels ever written and admittidly a complex book, but not with out reason
Minor white believed that you could not begin to fully understand a photograph until you'd spent a least 30 minutes in silent contemplation while viewing the image. Photographs can of course mean different things to different people. My mood on a given day can make me feel differently about a photograph as did the day before. But i always sit down and study a photograph in order to get the true feeling of the photograph. Not how it feels to the photographer, but how it feels to me and i can't do that in 10 or 30 seconds i may not even be able to do it at my first viewing
The reason that i bring this topic up is because of a comment that a guest has left in one of my galleries
http://www.pbase.com/sean_mcr/youre_beautiful
"Tom 08-Jun-2007 14:52
How long have you hated men?
How would you view this if a man wrote
it and trashed women? "
Tom seems to think that the poem is about hating men, he also appears to think that the gallery was made by a woman about herself or women in general being superior to men
This to me a classic case of there being none so blind as those who will not see.
Thanks for reading
sean