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In Transit
{K:29432} 11/7/2003
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Ahhh it takes a woman (KB) to point with her index finger to Mr. Jim's middle finger...
Am sure there will be more to the tale... as one studies the creator's serendipity!
Here is to smiling at you both!
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 11/6/2003
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As for the positioning of the middle finger, chalk that up to pure serendipity. In fact, I never noticed it until your comment! But perhaps there was some subconscious process at work.
I did this image a couple of days after an extraordinarily gifted photographer was "removed from competition" at another site following many months of nasty exchanges with hard-core photo "purists." They certainly aren't photo "traditionalists," since the pictorial techniques they despise -- collage, montage and even incorporating drawing and painting within the photograph -- were all developed by photography's earliest pioneers, and have been used ever since.
In any event, as you correctly perceived, "Secrets" was my response.
As for using Illustrator in my work, no I don't. Truth is, I just don't have a knack for Bezier curves. However, I do frequently use Clipping Paths in PS to convert bit-mapped selections to vector equations. Best--Jim
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karen barnett
{K:4237} 11/5/2003
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Oh wow... once again you have taken photography many steps past it's conventional bounds. I agree with ALL the posts, so consider this a "ditto".......
..but knowing how you so cleverly and so clearly are "in-the-face" of conventional photography, and even conventional art.... I must ask....
Did you position the photographers middle finger with it's gently raised position on purpose? Or did it swim up from your stream of consciousness to reiterate your adherence to non-conventional images? Whichever..... I find it a delightful oh-so-subtle touch. Your work just keeps getting 'cooler' and 'cooler'. Do you use Adobe Illustrator in any of it?
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 11/5/2003
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Hi Sandy:
That was the idea, exactly!
Hello IT:
Funny you should mention Arbus. Dianne and Jerry Uelsmann were my two idols when starting out. Two incredibly different influences. Fortunately, for my mental health, the Uelsmann sensibility won out years ago.
A few weeks before commiting suicide, Dianne lectured my brother's photography class at Andover. She pinned 16x20 prints of her most famous images on the walls of the studio, then left without bothering to take them down. I guess she had stopped caring. --Jim
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In Transit
{K:29432} 11/5/2003
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There is a current retrospective at SF MOMA... The late Arbus was one like you who walked the streets of NYC and captured what she saw... as you still do... but then you take the "cutting edge" of new technology... (no pun intended) and create images 'second to none'!
Look forward to your exhibition... where ever... and do tell us... when where... so that we can give you a toast on opening night... when you will share some of your real secrets!
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sandy c. hopkins
{K:17107} 10/30/2003
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what i see in this photo..is that everything...
is art...
absolutely everthing...
another facinating piece of you..
:)
sandy
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Maja Gligoric
{K:13528} 9/8/2003
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Cool!Great idea.As always you are again very creative.
Excellent work,bravo!
Regards!
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ana ribeiro
{K:21290} 8/26/2003
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fantastic creation !! Diane Arbus said many inteligent things.
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Alberto Agnoletti
{K:12811} 8/20/2003
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Very nice work!!
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Robin McAulay
{K:8908} 8/19/2003
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I can see what work you must have put into this and added to your original idea makes it a totally inspirng and classic image - a treat
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B:)liana
{K:30945} 8/19/2003
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Excellent representation. so creative. Bravo Jim. Kiss! I am just dreaming looking at your Photo Art. Bravo. This is Art for me. Thank you, dear Jim. Into my Favorites! ;-)
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scarlet james
{K:778} 8/17/2003
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Wow!! Great, fascinating, strong creative work and extremely well crafted.. I am much honoured that you not only looked at my pics but you took valuable time and effort to comment on them .. very kind - thankyou.
I added the name Clotho as `umble `omage to the `Thread of Life`Greek Godess..:) wish I had thought of Ms Plath for Night Out brilliant.. didn`t realise I`d plonked the glass dead in middle ...then I very rarely know what I do till I`ve dun it..:)scarlet x
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 8/16/2003
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Alors Joel:
Un faiseur de rêves! Bonjour Joel: Un faiseur de rêves! Quelle description convenable.
À moi, "Secret Revealed" et "Morning After" (je sais, c'est non votre favori) ont tous les deux étés au sujet des rêves. Cette image est au sujet des rêves du coeur, l'autre au sujet des rêves de l'esprit.
Dans cette image les rêves de photographe de créer l'art. Mais comme avec beaucoup de rêves, il n'est pas sans abondance des ambiguïtés. Parfois son presque "pleuvoir l''art -- il y a ainsi beaucoup de possibilités et potentialités qu'il prend la discipline considérable pour trouver le plus signicatif et pour le suivre à une conclusion réussie. Parfois, car Craig obserrved, il est "jusqu'à ses globes oculaires" dans l'art et le rêve offre des possibilités intéressantes de devenir un cauchemar des projets confus et non finis.
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Le Montagner joel
{K:293} 8/16/2003
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I think it's THE dream of all photographers : make art ! well or not well but try....
Jim, you are an artist and an dreams'worker (un faiseur de rêves)
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^j^ .
{K:8554} 8/16/2003
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I've always thought that a magician should never ever reveal his secrets ?!
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Anna
{K:2994} 8/16/2003
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This picture is unique, in it?s colors, composition and meaning...
I was looking at it sitting back and thinking of my photo-teacher?s words "Anna, I give you some advices and tools... but vision and creativity are something that NOBODY can give you. They must be there and they must grow..."
Thank you Jim for your inspiration.
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Hayri CALISKAN
{K:16195} 8/15/2003
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Very interesting composed. I like it.
Regards, Hayri.
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Benedetto Riba
{K:15792} 8/15/2003
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Jim, excellent image, great work!! Congrats.
Regard Benedetto.
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evreniz e.
{K:5484} 8/14/2003
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Very creative work dear Jim.. Really very successive illustration..
I congratulate you deeply for this different and creative work.
Regards, Murat.
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Eva Backlund
{K:2374} 8/14/2003
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What a fantastic work, you have done here. It?s a marvellous image. Congrats
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Richard Blount
{K:8015} 8/14/2003
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Wow! This is awesome, I like the effect and appreciate the work gone into this, I think the white/blue art streaming out of the camera, or should that be into it? Looks almost like a rope but that adds to the effect, well done Jim, one of your best yet IMHO - Richard.
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Judy Kessler
{K:6316} 8/13/2003
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Very creative work... well done.
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 8/13/2003
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Jim; thanks much for your comments on Project assignment-- "my best photograph". The slight "halo" effect you noted around the Sea Palm I believe was probably caused by use of a PSP effects tool called 'Clarify'-- application of this tool seems to increase both contrast and sharpness, and it is often very effective in giving a photo some "punch" (for lack of a better word. I did no dodging on this photo. Anyway, it must work on light/dark pixels, and I've noted this halo effect on other photos too, and I don't use it when it becomes to severe. But I thought it worked well here. I do think that only someone exceptionally familiar w/ photo editing effects, such as yourself, would even recognize this, eg I thought the slight lightening around the Sea Palm plant looked quite nice-- but then I'm a relative novice re photo editing effects. Thanks, and cheers. Craig
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Leslie Cohelan
{K:20807} 8/13/2003
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Well I've just spent about 10 minutes enjoying your image and your commentary...your explaination explains a lot and the image well not conly is your poto good but so is all the work behind the work behind the wor...you set my drift...the composition and the use of the bellow style camera and wooden tripod all help pull this together...if there was one thing I would change, (if it were my image)it would be to slightly desaturate the colors...excellent , excellent image...I have thoroughly enjoyed it...now on to the rest of your portfoliio...
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Mari Mar
{K:11469} 8/13/2003
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Great idea! interesting composition, well done, Jim!
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Ronny Van Eeckhoutte
{K:12734} 8/13/2003
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exelent and beautiful work...
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Anna Pagnacco
{K:7448} 8/13/2003
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Unique Jim...a very creative image! Anna
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 8/13/2003
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Patricia asked the question and Carol answered it for me -- at least in part!
The inspiration for this one, and a lot of my other work, comes directly from the Surrealists of the 30s and 40s -- especially the photographer Man Ray, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, painters Max Ernest, Salvador Dali, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Jean Cocteau, and above all, René Magritte. Or more precisely, it is their work as it was rediscovered and reinterpreted in the late 60s that continues to be a deep well for images and ideas.
In 1968, a massive exhibition of Surrealist art was mounted at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. As it happened, I was a college sophmore working as a summer publishing intern a few blocks away. Suffice to say, I'm not sure how much I learned about publishing that summer, but when my university offered a course in Surrealism soon after, the professor hired me as his teaching assistant.
After all these years, it's the weird juxtepositions and powerful yet ambiguous imagery -- in other words, the things more profoundly connected to our dream lives than the waking world -- that I find the most fascinating aspect of Surrealism.
Jim
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José Eduardo Cruz
{K:13180} 8/13/2003
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Great work!!!!
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 8/13/2003
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vision and a good tripod ;)
truly a great composite - wonderful work!!
Mary
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Ulf Fågelhammar
{K:10975} 8/13/2003
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This is wonderful Jim - as is the Arbus quote.
You have got a great vision and I feel very inspired by your work.
I will not try to discover the secret of this outstanding image.
I just sit back and enjoy it!
A true favourite.
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peta jones
{K:12615} 8/12/2003
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Oh this one is very cool Jim. Unique composition and very arty!:)
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Carol Watson
{K:5185} 8/12/2003
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For some reason, this reminds me of one of my father's sayings, "they were so stupid, they didn't know enough to come in from a shit storm". Instead, it's "the photographer who didn't know enough to come in from an art storm". The 60's has left their mark on you..... :-) Far out, dude.
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Andre Fersen
{K:1679} 8/12/2003
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My comment about Diane Arbus is that she obviously spent time studying under one of those Zen masters.
Photogrpahy and art? Is every painting of kittens playing with balls of string, art? It's what you make it.
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Elizabeth Miller
{K:2766} 8/12/2003
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I don't know what to say Jim!! A lot going on here. Very mesmerizing photoart. I find myself staring at your work to try to figure out how the hell you do this!! lol.
I guess it's a secret.!!
Elizabeth
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Igor L.
{K:7432} 8/12/2003
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Great work!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 8/12/2003
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.....the photographer up to his eyeballs in art? This is cool Jim, and of course touches on the age old question of photography versus art, ie one and the same? I think sometimes, but not always thats true, but then it's true of paintings as well-- not all are art. BTW, I had the "audacity" to post a photo in the project category "my best photograph", and I would appreciate your opinion. It's over 30 years old but I still like it and it's one that inspired me to get obsessive about (especially) nature photography. Thanks, and cheers. Craig
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Roger Cotgreave
{K:15892} 8/12/2003
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bloody good jim and now I have the secret...art. So much happening in this one, regards roger
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Patricia Eifel
{K:5097} 8/12/2003
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WHERE do you come up with these ideas??? This is such fun. I like the Arbus quote too...
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