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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Nine: Composition -- putting it together > Hidalgo Market, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2005
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25-OCT-2005

Hidalgo Market, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2005

The huge iron framed hall opened in 1910. It now features enormous Mexican movie posters. I base this composition on the rhythmic repetition of the six curving arched roof supports, seven smaller diagonal supporting bars, and the three huge posters. The incongruously cartoonish posters offer a diagonal band of color that flows in steps from the left hand edge to the lower right corner of the picture, while the series of arching roof supports reach from the lower left towards the upper right hand corner. These crossing diagonals flow in opposite directions, pulling the eye through the image twice.

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Phil Douglis13-Apr-2007 20:09
The echoing repetition of both posters and roof supports creates opposing rhythms that pull the eye dynamically through and around the image. The angle I took made these rhythms work best. Thanks, Chris, for pointing this out.
Chris Sofopoulos13-Apr-2007 08:54
I like the repetition of the colourful posters and the angle you chose Phil.
Phil Douglis20-Jul-2006 00:45
I love this interpretation, Ceci - these are movie posters, and objectification of woman as "broads" is an essential part of motion picture history. It puts male bottoms in the seats. I also am fascinated by the rapacious clawing of flesh you see in the girders and the greedy phallic lamps. all part of the fabric of mass market motion pictures. Not only here in Mexico, but everywhere. I am glad that my composition made it all work for you and in the process, become re-energized for me.
Guest 19-Jul-2006 21:04
Very dynamic and curvaceous photo, interesting to see that women are as objectified in Mexico as here, perhaps more so in these exaggerated "broad-like" illusstrations. Love the arches above, but in counting them, there are five, like the fingers of a hand, and as though to suggest a rapacious clawing after "flesh". Also, the lamps hanging below are suggestively phallic, making this shot seem to throb with the eternal greed of males for females.
Phil Douglis12-Nov-2005 19:47
This is pure geometry, Kal. Rectangles and curves, rhythmically repeated and placed in opposition to each other.
Kal Khogali12-Nov-2005 13:22
Reminds me of Jen's image at the Antique Market, but without the bistle. Like the geometric shapes that are anchored by the posters.
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