Comments on: Albrecht Tübke and “Different vs. The Same”

By: Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:42:28 +0000

(don’t rush ‘em, haha)

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SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Scott Peterman: Shack — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:21:34 +0000

[...] the recent discussion of ‘Different vs. The Same’ or what might better be called ‘Series vs. [...]

By: Bryan S

Bryan S — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:01:11 +0000

Okay dude, it’s been ten days. I know you’re in England or whatever, but give us a new post!

By: corey

corey — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:02:05 +0000

thanks for the reference to tubke’s work, just went to his site. the heads series seems very different than his other projects, with the environment being crucial to the person’s description. is the heads his most recent work? it almost seems to speak about his own process, a questioning of whether the environmental information is actually important. his other work seems to draw a lot from a. sanders though, so maybe he is actually poking fun at the hipness of sterile typology work. interesting topic, thanks for getting the gears turning this am.

By: corey

corey — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:49:58 +0000

i think sameness, or typologies work when it is necessary to neutralize the background in order for the subjects being portrayed to reveal their narrative of either unity of uniqueness. i agree that establishing images make the individuals more resonant, but that information as a part of series like this would seemingly dilute the intent by averting the viewers attention from the subject. typologies seems to more successful when they are used to promote an examination of their subjects, and less successful when they are used conceptually as a statement about the becher’s method.

By: micah

micah — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:46:32 +0000

Series vs. Sequence. One of my most favorite questions. Nathan Lyons brought this stuff to my attention at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. A series of photographs of buildings or like Tubke, a series of heads. Sequencing tends to be more elusive, more poetic. With sequencing you don’t always know why one image follows another but you look for that visual flow. I remember Nathan saying, you can have a series within a sequence but you can’t have a sequence within a series. I think sequencing, compared to series, tends to be more challenging. But what do you want to say with your work? How do you want to group your work? Like Harry Callahan says leading towards a life’s work.

By: carey

carey — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:32:29 +0000

a really great example of a project that utilizes repetition is sarah stolfa’s the regulars because, as a bartender, she intrinsically witnessed her subjects from a single vantage point and thus the viewer is able to imagine himself in her stead behind the bar. as to the more general discussion, repetition allows our eyes to more easily identify differences. alec soth talks about how photography is the closest visual medium to poetry, but i think that projects that function by stringing together a variety of symbolic imagery exemplify that idea best. repetitious projects are about making visual comparisons. thus both approaches really rely an abundance of images to allow the viewer to connect one visual element to another. and, yeah, i’m gonna be really lame and go add this same comment to speak, see, remember…