the not-so-reverend ray gunn ([info]raygunn_revival) wrote,
@ 2005-04-18 16:17:00
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Frankly, My Dear
Memory's hands are bound by nostalgia
"Gone" (c) 2005

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[info]drsmax
2005-04-18 01:22 pm UTC (link)
Wow!

Cool alt title, too.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 01:28 pm UTC (link)
Yay!

Double yay!

I've been going through some old Henri Cartier Bresson books and realizing that I am so inspired by his work and I want to explore more in the artistic photojournalism area. Less creepy nightmarish stuff, I think, will be the order of the day.

But to those who enjoy the horrorshow, I'll try to keep a (severed) hand in. I wouldn't want to alienate anyone.

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[info]moosemonster
2005-04-18 01:58 pm UTC (link)
Can you combine them?

Lovely photo.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 02:00 pm UTC (link)
Two great tastes that taste great together, eh?

I'll see what I can do!

And thanks.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 01:41 pm UTC (link)
I dunno, I think I'd like it better if I saw it sans the actors in the reflection. But I've never seen "Gone With the Wind," so maybe there's a reference I'm missing?

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Hey! Thanks for the crit :)

You're not missing much of a reference beyond what's there, though.


For my own part, I was entranced by the juxtaposition I saw between reckless youth and fiery passion, as emblematized by that scene in GWTW, with the dottering camaraderie of the elderly couple.

I'm not sure if I'd like the picture without Viv and Clark.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 02:10 pm UTC (link)
I always figured Rhett and Scarlett wouldn't last. I'd rather have what the old people have.

My father's parents are in their late 80s. They still hold hands. That's what I want.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 03:28 pm UTC (link)
I wholeheartedly second that.

I want what my grandparents had too.

But I refuse to believe they weren't passionate about each other when they were young.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 06:51 pm UTC (link)
Oh, it'd be cool if they were. My grandparents grew up next door to each other and have known each other literally their entire lives, but I'm sure they had their hot moments.

My brother stayed over at their place a couple years ago and informed me that the bedsprings squeaked one night. The next morning, Grandpa pinched Grandma's fanny, and she giggled like a schoolgirl. My brother was freaked, but I think it's sweet.

As long as I don't picture them naked.

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[info]quickly_9
2005-04-18 01:57 pm UTC (link)
i don't know. i kind of thought that was the point. two young people in a passionate embrace, two old farts that don't even have to touch to know they love each other.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 02:12 pm UTC (link)
But the actors were probably born around the same time as the elderly couple's parents. Maybe that's where I'm getting tripped up. If it were an unidentified young passionate couple in the reflection, I might be more interested.

It's still a lovely photo, though.

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[info]quickly_9
2005-04-18 02:25 pm UTC (link)
oh i just think of that scene. its one of those timeless pictures that one associates with romance.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 02:29 pm UTC (link)
Never seen the scene. I'm not a big fan of romances.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 02:29 pm UTC (link)
Except "Casablanca." Put Bogie and Ingrid in that picture, and I'd be bawling my eyes out.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 03:26 pm UTC (link)
I wish I'd had the choice to do just that. I probably would have.

I love Casablanca.

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[info]spasmsproject
2005-04-18 06:47 pm UTC (link)
"We'll always have Paris."

*sniff*

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[info]colleenaf
2005-04-18 02:33 pm UTC (link)
FARTS!


Sorry...I've got a weird one track mind today, but yeah you have a point. There's a lot of love there. More than the passionate kiss if you ask me.

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Further Proof Colleen is NOT a romantic...
[info]colleenaf
2005-04-18 01:47 pm UTC (link)
My first thought was "HA! He's pulling his own finger."

Leave it up to me to take a beautiful photograph and make it all about gas.

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Re: Further Proof Colleen is NOT a romantic...
[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 01:57 pm UTC (link)
Ha!

I don't make passes at folks who pass gasses.

Eh. Farts are a part of life. Especially at that stage. I bet they love each other toots an' all.

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While we're in the gutter
[info]moosemonster
2005-04-18 01:59 pm UTC (link)
I'm not entirely certain he's wearing anything under that overcoat, or that he knows the woman, or that she minds.

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Re: While we're in the gutter
[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 03:25 pm UTC (link)
You'll be gratified to hear that he was wearing a Batman-esque fake six-pack chest underneath that overcoat.

And that the woman was his sister, and had seen it all before.

And that I'm full of hooey.

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Re: Further Proof Colleen is NOT a romantic...
[info]colleenaf
2005-04-18 02:02 pm UTC (link)
It's a Venable family tradition that you don't hold ANYTHING back from those you love.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Smells like love to me.

A veritable dutch-oven of love.

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[info]lilitaly
2005-04-19 04:22 am UTC (link)
Oh dear......

I like this shot!

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[info]slinka
2005-04-18 01:58 pm UTC (link)
I love how the couples are in diagonal corners from each other. It's technically and sentimentally beautiful.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-18 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, angelpants.

I've had various and sundry adversarial run-ins with sentimentality. I think we're going to be on better terms in the future. I appreciate the encouragement!

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[info]slinka
2005-04-18 03:45 pm UTC (link)
I've never been called angelpants before! :D

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Is My Age Showing?
[info]auggiewren
2005-04-18 07:02 pm UTC (link)
The reflection over the poster strikes me in the same way a picture fades on an old television. It was hard to comprehend that these people could be the children of Gable.That would place them at my parents' age. "IMPOSSIBLE!" says I. In my mind's eye (or eye's mind...), they are contemporaries of the pictured picture stars.

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Re: Is My Age Showing?
[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-19 03:48 am UTC (link)
My general policy is not to undercut anyone's interpretation of my work, but here is the straight dope on the age question:

William Clark Gable was born in 1901.

The elderly couple I had guessed to be in their mid- to late seventies.

Therefore, it's possible that they could have been the children of Gable, but unlikely that they could have been contemporaries. That would make them 104.

However, neither child-of-ness nor contemporary-ness were themes I had intended or even conceived of when I shot this picture.

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[info]auggiewren
2005-04-19 04:04 am UTC (link)
I understand all you've said. For me, approaching the legendary "hill"*, it is just amazing that I've seen the young turn into the elderly.

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[info]raygunn_revival
2005-04-19 04:11 am UTC (link)


What, Blueberry Hill?

Seriously: very well said. For what it's worth, it doesn't show.





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