Photo eyes or photo ears (Part 1)
It’s considerable that a good picture doesn’t tell us about the things on a frame, but the things which are out of frame.
Actually, it is not about the objects, it is more about the history of the frame, and its future. Such a photograph reminds of the second frame in three frame burst (the past, the present, the future). Every photo is thought over by both photographer and viewer. One of the genres of deliberation is “Photographer’s ears”.
The term “photographer’s ears” is very alike to hare’s ears. See, photographing any scene the photographer tries to avoid signs of his presence, covering his tracks by any the means. And it’s right: the place for a creator is always on a small table under his picture (in titles of the film, behind the scenes but not on the stage etc.)
Being a photographer means seeing the whole story of a photo. And “photographer’s ears” help viewers to unravel the story. We speak about the ears when the photographer himself is an object of the picture without being on the frame.
You’ll probably get it better when you look at this photo.
Since I’m not only a beginning photographer but a professional man I wasn’t surprised to see the girl want to fly like a witch. Looking at her waving hair I started thinking why her skirt was still fulfilling its function. I was indignant at that fact but when I came back to the photograph I noticed that the picture was upside down. Having turned it up I managed to see that the model had been tied (just like a dozen of things in the room) with thin ropes to the ceiling. The ceiling was painted like the floor and the floor was whitebleached like the ceiling! The photograph acquired another, more active and attractive quality.
The thing that excited me wasn’t the skirt or the model herself but this hardly noticed ropes and the whole story of this performance. I imagined how the assistants were preparing the studio for the survey, how they were screwing on the chair and the table to the ceiling, then they sticked the telephone and its wire and the photographer was watching over the show to be noticed only by the photoaddicted viewer.
So, this is how “photographer’s ears” help viewer read an interesting story. The picture below is another example, which performs good story, but you have to unravel it yourself.
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