Regina Sampels - Lover of Contrast and Graph Paper / MoMA October 17, 2007
The chairs look like they are floating. Cool... - Jocelyn - http://www.myspace.com/jocelynryder that's more like it... a real person in a somewhat unreal enviroment... 'lover of cotrast', ey? good one! - samsplanet Lover of graph paper - besides the chairs 'floating' they also look like distorted graph paper. I love the contrast and her cup of mojo. Exceptional! - Julie ..and the lines in the floor and wall adding to the graph paper affect... - Dean An even lovelier girl in a lovely picture. I'll bet she'll like the colors and the constrast. - Christoph samsplanet,
care to explain why more "conventionally" attractive people are somehow less real? do you mean ontologically? or do you mean they have fewer claims to certain rights -- like, say, the right to be photographed in an artistic manner?
or do you simply think that the absence of glamor is an automatic guarantor of authenticity? (guess what: this thinking can result in cliched photos, as well.)
you seem to get in a snit every time bill shoots a "glamor" shot, such as yesterday's. please get over it, or at least develop something more interesting to say about what in particular is bugging you.
--bored comments reader - bored comments reader after reading bored comments reader...i'm now bored. - Stephanie - www.billwadman.com I like it. Jocelyn is right, the chairs look like they are floating, interesting. Regina looks really nice here, sort of comes out. I like her dark blue shirt, comfy position sitting, and the cup of coffee? She looks like she got into the crop by accident, but made the picture have a meaning. I really like it. Very comfy, calm and relaxing. Love it, actually! - Ela I love everything about this image. Especially the composition. Excellent job. I still remain a big fan of yours Bill. - GUS BENNETT - http://web.mac.com/gusbennettjr1 ...in response to 'bored comments reader,'
there have been strikingly beautiful people who can look 'real' just as there can be seemingly 'hot' people who really just look like the make up has been plastered on and they are hiding behind a facade. 'real' people look just that...not made up, and seem rather in touch with humanity, not afraid to be revealed by what the camera has to offer.
personally, all the photographs have been interesting to view, but i do prefer seeing the real people. - rlb @ bored commets reader:
you're bored of reading the comments. and i'm bored of pictures of people that look like britney, lindsay christina and the sorts...
rlb says it all. take away jennifers glasses, the t-shirt, the makeup and the blackboard and you won't recognize her again... much unlike regina or even jessica from tomorrows portrait ;-)
@ stephanie: :-) - samsplanet Graphically dimensionally striking.
The wire chairs have an interesting alter presence on the opposite side of the scrimmed window in the red padded chairs. I wonder if we could peek through the window behind your wonderful subject we would find a wire frame woman? ;-) - Libby Wow! Regina! You made it! Big time! You're in the internet! - No really: this IS a really lovellley picture! Hope to see you again some time! The sooner the better the Kölsch! (?) - T i l l - http://gotears.de This is calming. Nobody in those chairs so the setting might as well be in the mind itself and she is set apart and happy to be so. There is an elegance to this and a grace that permits comfort. - Boo - http://www.xanga.com/Boowasborn love the way the outside chairs play off the inside chairs, and the outside chairs pick up the graph paper thing, and the sly look on your model's face, as if she is appreciating the irony of it all. - jen
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- Jocelyn - http://www.myspace.com/jocelynryder
that's more like it... a real person in a somewhat unreal enviroment... 'lover of cotrast', ey? good one!
- samsplanet
Lover of graph paper - besides the chairs 'floating' they also look like distorted graph paper. I love the contrast and her cup of mojo. Exceptional!
- Julie
..and the lines in the floor and wall adding to the graph paper affect...
- Dean
An even lovelier girl in a lovely picture. I'll bet she'll like the colors and the constrast.
- Christoph
samsplanet, care to explain why more "conventionally" attractive people are somehow less real? do you mean ontologically? or do you mean they have fewer claims to certain rights -- like, say, the right to be photographed in an artistic manner? or do you simply think that the absence of glamor is an automatic guarantor of authenticity? (guess what: this thinking can result in cliched photos, as well.) you seem to get in a snit every time bill shoots a "glamor" shot, such as yesterday's. please get over it, or at least develop something more interesting to say about what in particular is bugging you. --bored comments reader
- bored comments reader
after reading bored comments reader...i'm now bored.
- Stephanie - www.billwadman.com
I like it. Jocelyn is right, the chairs look like they are floating, interesting. Regina looks really nice here, sort of comes out. I like her dark blue shirt, comfy position sitting, and the cup of coffee? She looks like she got into the crop by accident, but made the picture have a meaning. I really like it. Very comfy, calm and relaxing. Love it, actually!
- Ela
I love everything about this image. Especially the composition. Excellent job. I still remain a big fan of yours Bill.
- GUS BENNETT - http://web.mac.com/gusbennettjr1
...in response to 'bored comments reader,' there have been strikingly beautiful people who can look 'real' just as there can be seemingly 'hot' people who really just look like the make up has been plastered on and they are hiding behind a facade. 'real' people look just that...not made up, and seem rather in touch with humanity, not afraid to be revealed by what the camera has to offer. personally, all the photographs have been interesting to view, but i do prefer seeing the real people.
- rlb
@ bored commets reader: you're bored of reading the comments. and i'm bored of pictures of people that look like britney, lindsay christina and the sorts... rlb says it all. take away jennifers glasses, the t-shirt, the makeup and the blackboard and you won't recognize her again... much unlike regina or even jessica from tomorrows portrait ;-) @ stephanie: :-)
- samsplanet
Graphically dimensionally striking. The wire chairs have an interesting alter presence on the opposite side of the scrimmed window in the red padded chairs. I wonder if we could peek through the window behind your wonderful subject we would find a wire frame woman? ;-)
- Libby
Wow! Regina! You made it! Big time! You're in the internet! - No really: this IS a really lovellley picture! Hope to see you again some time! The sooner the better the Kölsch! (?)
- T i l l - http://gotears.de
This is calming. Nobody in those chairs so the setting might as well be in the mind itself and she is set apart and happy to be so. There is an elegance to this and a grace that permits comfort.
- Boo - http://www.xanga.com/Boowasborn
love the way the outside chairs play off the inside chairs, and the outside chairs pick up the graph paper thing, and the sly look on your model's face, as if she is appreciating the irony of it all.
- jen