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Extracting beauty from the mundane: Wouter Rietberg (2015)

• fiatjaf 10y ago
  Not too beautiful.
  • nerdponx 10y ago
    What don't you like about it?
  • ansgri 10y ago
    Well, not everybody has a taste for abstract art, it is understandable. But did you see his actual photostream (beyond the article)? Like [0], which is at least interesting in its similarity to some crude computer graphics experiment. [0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/wouterrietberg/26614536032 https://www.flickr.com/photos/wouterrietberg/26614536032
  • throwanem 10y ago
    He has an interesting eye for the built environment. Nothing I'd hang, but there's an appeal in some of his work.
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  • adulau 10y ago
    The interesting part in your comment is the triggering of the old aesthetic discussion about photography and beauty. Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams might be an interesting starting point to expand your comment: http://aransomephoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Robert-Adams-Beauty-in-Photography.pdf http://aransomephoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Robert-A... Regarding the photography of Wouter Rietberg, there is probably a certain beauty which can touch and can be related to a specific cultural background (maybe an heritage from the Bauhaus design). Everyone is influenced and maybe your perspective of beauty is composed from your own cultural heritage. On a personal level, I find the work of Wouter Rietberg very dense but towards this too perfect or describing too-polished structure of the world. I'm missing a bit the human imprint or decision to make the photography more natural. It doesn't mean it's ugly or not beautiful, it's just I don't feel my sense of beauty being touched by this photographic approach which looks a bit systematic to my eyes. I'm sure many photographer or viewer might be touched by this systematic approach. Maybe we're just all blind due to our own perceptions.