Is the little family group on the right camped out in this rather ancient caravan? Is
Is the little family group on the right camped out in this rather ancient caravan? Is it a modern picture or very old?" 15/20`Columba Palumbus Palumbas B4231' by Clive LandenHis exhibition and book, Familiar British Wildlife, shows wildlife the way we often see it - flattened by the side of the road."Another casualty - I hope this is the last of these It is awful I feel sorry for the driver as well as for the bird. Possibly, if you were in a camera club, some judges would say, `Do you need all that sky? Get rid of it and that would concentrate the interest on the other bits and pieces'. It had to be set up but I don't believe it was." 18/20`Nostalgia for the Future' by John KippinKippin uses the landscape tradition to explore ideas of heritage and military presence."There's quite a lot to look at: the group of people [on the right] are nicely placed on a third - that's great; the main subject across the centre. What's clicked with me is a dark band across the centre - it could be a range of hills behind the photographer, if you're looking at a reflection." 18/20No. 3 from `The Last Resort' by Martin ParrParr's brightly coloured photographs make witty, astute comments on British and other cultures and regularly appear in The Independent, The Guardian and galleries in Europe."It's a marvellous picture. It seems quite incredible that this is a candid shot (I think that's how this is being presented). The photographer presumably just wanders around nonchalantly and seizes the right moment, like a British Cartier-Bresson I don't know what they're exchanging: perhaps a chocolate.
Just note how attractively dressed the girls are: posh dresses and smart shoes. The novelty aspect lifts it up a bit, the end result drags it down quite a bit." 12/20`Pictures from the Street No.187, Sao Paolo, September 1993', by Joachim SchmidSchmid's medium is "found photography". Her work appeared in last year's Royal Academy show, Sensation."Here we've got a distorted figure - I believe it's pressed on glass so that the breasts are flattened and spread out Overall, it's not a beautiful picture. If Camera Club people were doing nude photography they would be striving for an image where people would say `Isn't the girl beautiful?' That doesn't apply with this.
It appears to be a series of little streaks and dashes; it could be a blurred shot, the camera hand-held for two seconds Possibly little birds fluttering about in the middle I like this. He picks up discarded pictures on the street and presents them as mysterious works of art."This is a puzzle. Kippin sipped his tea quietly.In the event, the audience of club members, mostly retired, seemed unperturbed by what they saw: two dozen images comprising, among other subjects, squashed women and even more squashed wildlife They nodded approval where they felt it due. Dissent, when it came, was in the form of pursed lips and sharp intakes of breath, and seemed to centre on the generous allocation of marks But Ray was not to be thrown off his stride. "You can moan and groan all you like, but I shan't change my mark," he said.