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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Two: Travel Incongruities > Clothing store, Guilin, China, 2006
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07-APR-2006

Clothing store, Guilin, China, 2006

A mannequin provides the incongruous element here. The young woman lifting the mannequin off the ground appears to consider it just so much dead weight. Even though she is shorter, she makes the job look easy. This size variation, as well as the indifferent expressions on both the mannequin and woman, gives this image its incongruity. The woman looks at us, and not the mannequin, which bring us into the picture. The ghostly figure of man in the frame on the wall adds a final surrealistic touch to the photograph.

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Phil Douglis04-Jul-2006 18:39
Glad this picture really got your imagination working, Emi. Thanks for coming back again and again to describe how your vision of the mannequin as the subject kept on increasing. That is what expressive photography does, Emi -- it offers the imagination room to maneuver and then expand. You see this image as about the passions of a mannequin and nothing can deter you from it. I saw the woman as the central figure in this image, going about her strange job in a matter of fact way. But now you come along and turn it upside down. Thank you for this refreshing point of view.
Guest 04-Jul-2006 17:23
I mean supposed it should be like 1) the real woman since she is the only flesh blood here, 2) then should be the man on the poster since it is a photographic image, 3)the figure on the door and maybe the face on the girl's t-shirt, at least they have a smile or what to show , however, surprising, the mannequin here appears to be the most passionate one to me.

Emi
Guest 04-Jul-2006 17:18
Funny the longer I look at this picture, the stronger I feel this way - out of the 5 humann images in the picture, the mannequin seems to be the most passionate one here, however it is not even a living creature. Ironic.

Emi
Guest 04-Jul-2006 11:53
I feel the tension in this picture - the real woman lifting the mannequin and heading to the left, while the mannequin looks like she wants to go to the right, just she is bind by the real woman can cannot do anything. The eyes of the mannequin seem like longing for something out there while she has to be brought to the opposite way where she doesnt want to go....

Emi
Phil Douglis19-Apr-2006 20:47
Your eye for detail is amazing. I did not even see the face on the t-shirt or the figure on the door until you mentioned them. The three way relationship of the woman, mannequin, and poster on the wall, carried the image for me, but you make it even more incongruous by noting the one vs. four relationship.
Tim May19-Apr-2006 17:14
I notice that there are 5 human images in this picture and only one of them is real.
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