Gesture - Conveying an emotion
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- THIS VIDEO: The word gesture is thrown about in photographic discussions, but what does it actually mean. The definition refers to an action that conveys a feeling. But for this discussion, I’m going to extend its meaning to include any visual element or group of elements that sparks an emotional response. So, this could be a physical act, a movement or a bend in a tree branch. For me something becomes a gesture when it prompts a feeling. Even the bent leg of a table may remind one of instability or ageing. Photographers have a lot to gain by becoming aware of gesture and understanding what it says about ourselves and others. As a photographer, you are already operating in the domain of gesture - possibly the factor that makes all of your successful images work - is that they contain a spark that communicates emotion. Gesture is what elevates a picture above the ordinary - It reflects some human quality that is conveyed through to the unconscious.
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Excellent essay, Graeme. Thank you.
Provocative as ever. Clear discussion of things that we instinctively do whatever we are making a photograph but don't analyse at the time. A lot of wit. I think one that I have enjoyed the most so far but ... the journey proceeds, I hope.
I hope too. Many thanks
Another fascinating video, thanks Graeme. Always thought provoking.
Loved this video, amazed at how many Vivian Maier images were there, thought provoking 👏👏
Thank you ...
Another banger. Great insight and doing it subconsciously [whoa]
Thank you for the Lecture. I like your Panorama pictures
Great job! Greetings from Spain
thank you Graeme for another interesting discussion, these are always illuminating and thought provoking
Many thanks
I learn more and more as a photographic artist watching your videos. Bravo!
Great, thanks Robert
Very nice video, love the images, good samples, great explanation.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks RS
Your videos are all rewardiing and wonderful!
Much appreciated!
Extremely interesting lecture. Very insightful.
Enjoyed....thank you! Great to see bits of Motherwell included: one my favourite abstract expressionists. A very smart guy.
Yes, he was a real thinker and a great artist.
About conceptual art:yes, it's true that conceptual communication may not have been possible for cavemen, but this is because they were burdened by a survavlist imperative. We've moved on since, an and we are not the way we used to be back then ...are not animals, and as such we are able to engage with things at an intellectual level as opposed to merely the gestural or emotive level. Art is obviously not just about conveying emotions, and most certainly not about cognitively empty emotions.
Many thanks for this
I wonder about this a lot- as you say it 'sparks an emotional response' - what I cannot explain is the emotional nature of this response Perhaps futile to overthink it ! Very interesting video Thank you
Perhaps all responses have an emotional aspect to them- some are just more powerful than others.
Interesting problem. I agree "gesture" and "trigger" are perhaps not the best terms. Perhaps evocative energy?
Yes, words sometimes are a bit limited and limiting.
Ooooow, look who just got all contemporary.
Personally I'm sort of maybies aye, maybies no about this concept. Although you can justifiably say that a gesture makes a photo, you can just as easily say that any photo of any animate object contains gesture: cat playing with ball of string, cat coming through a cat flap, cat sleeping. Is gesture just movement or can it be immobile. If it is immobile is there any intent, or meaning. If there is no intent or meaning, perhaps no life itself, are we just looking at interpretation by the photographer .... or the viewer? In which case any image of anything contains gesture; we could of course include music, architecture, food, texture ... the list goes on ... Is there intent, meaning, interpretation going on?
Ultimately a tighter definition is required or it simply becomes meaningless as a concept, which is why conceptual art is often labeled as being meaningless ... or somebody has to 'explain' it to the recipient.
ha-ha Nothing contemporary about gesture
Do you think photographs can be seen in metaphysical terms?
I don't think photography can be seen as a metaphysical gateway, but once one enters that realm then everything, including photography, could have a metaphysical dimension.