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12-AUG-2006

Going Home, Shanghai, China, 2006

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david lopezarias06-Dec-2006 20:56
great capture. nice
Sheena Xin Liu06-Dec-2006 07:00
Yes, Jen, your superb mastery of timing and sense of composition made this image really stands out. The hand gesture unintentionally made by the passer-by speaks of frustration, lost, indifference. It precisely splits the idealism read in the commercials “seeking the perfect half of your life”, into exactly two halves. Great sarcasm and great incongruities.
Phil Douglis23-Aug-2006 04:48
****Another familiar theme from Jen -- urban dislocation and commercialization. Nobody can live up to the standards of an artificial world based on commercial interests, and we sense that in this incongruously abstract juxtaposition. I used a similar structure in two photos I made in New York City:http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/65087505 andhttp://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/65090001 . My street people are not as well abstracted as yours is here, nor are the settings as abstract as this. However the concept of pedestrians oblivious to the call of commercial advertising is consistent in all three images.

I am also impressed with Echo's summation: "it's not the camera that counts, it's our eyes." A camera is essentially mindless. It sees unselectively. The photographer must make it see selectively. It is you, Jen, and not the camera, that selected this moment in light, time, and space, and made so much of it.
Shirley Wang23-Aug-2006 04:28
Great contrast! A fantasy world sandwiched between two common scenes.
Guest 20-Aug-2006 08:56
it really does draw the eye...very nice
Guest 20-Aug-2006 05:32
it really does draw the eye...very nice
Guest 20-Aug-2006 03:00
funny about billboards and other advertising...they keep on going even after the daily market shuts down and goes home...these two lovers are pleased to be recognized for 'having' either the pleasure of each other or the good things that they are involved in...pretty fair to assume that they are a dead and static idea....hard to guess what the dude is going home to....lose focus for a second and see a red-eyed caricature trudging, huh??? :-) love that...I do...
Kal Khogali20-Aug-2006 01:52
As if there is a sudden realisation of his urban pressures Jen..he is being mocked by that poster of the perfect life..., and the shadow corporate trap ;-)K
Tim May19-Aug-2006 16:11
I have to comment on an interesting (accidental?) level of meaning for me in this image - Freud divides the psyche into three part ego, super-ego, and id. The "id" is the source of base energies such as sexual energy - in this image the "ld's" of the Mac Donalds sign makes this seem to me like a picture of "ids."
Ray :)18-Aug-2006 23:11
Where is China :-(
sevres babylone18-Aug-2006 19:28
Superb shot.
JSWaters18-Aug-2006 15:35
Nicely done, Jen. Your timing is impeccable and Echo is right about the hand conveying so much, exhaustion, frustration and/or insecurity.
Jenene
Rob Oele18-Aug-2006 10:18
Great catch!
Guest 18-Aug-2006 09:17
wow, it is so much better than my one. his hand added so much in this shot...
I see now, it is not the camera that counts, it is our eyes....
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