RichardQ wrote:
Linda, thank you for the compliments re my 1951 photo, which I created for my Advertising Design class in Pratt Institute. The cranes were first photographed during a prosaic assignment for an insurance investigator handling an industrial accident lawsuit against a building contractor. I realized the graphic potential of the cranes and connecting cable patterns, and was inspired to combine, in the enlarger, two negatives of different cranes to create opposing triangular spaces. Triangles are dynamic, emitting energy fields which in these combinations result in tensions that are contained within the frame. One negative was turned upside down in the enlarger to expand the range of the triangle shapes. I was lucky in having a blank sky that day, because cloud backgrounds would have spoiled my concept. Does that explanation help you to understand the image? If I had to title it, I guess I'd call it "Tensions."
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hmm...my older sister went to Pratt, early fifties. She went on to be an art teacher