http://www.eriklunsford.com/blog/2009/06/18/layer-upon-layer/ on the aesthetics of everyday art, by St. Louis photojournalist erik lunsford Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:43:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.eriklunsford.com/blog/2009/06/18/layer-upon-layer/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Scott Villalobos Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:07:51 +0000 http://www.eriklunsford.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-715 They say that less is more and in these photographs I'm seeing too much for any one thing to stand out. In the first photograph I'm seeing the kid jumping but there is just way too much clutter for it to have the impact that a shot like that should. In the second photograph I can't decide what's more important, the patients leg or the surgeons moving the light. In the third photo I'm wondering what everybody is looking at, their gaze takes me out of the frame. To me it seems as though your trying too hard to capture that photo-journalistic story telling style when I'm not really getting the whole story. These images are like plucking a fragment of a paragraph and trying to understand the whole story - frustrating. They say that less is more and in these photographs I’m seeing too much for any one thing to stand out. In the first photograph I’m seeing the kid jumping but there is just way too much clutter for it to have the impact that a shot like that should. In the second photograph I can’t decide what’s more important, the patients leg or the surgeons moving the light. In the third photo I’m wondering what everybody is looking at, their gaze takes me out of the frame. To me it seems as though your trying too hard to capture that photo-journalistic story telling style when I’m not really getting the whole story. These images are like plucking a fragment of a paragraph and trying to understand the whole story – frustrating.

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