Althouse: Photo.

February 22, 2006

Photo.

By Christopher Althouse Cohen:

21 comments:

J. Cricket said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 2/22/06, 6:25 PM
Pete said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 2/22/06, 7:10 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Sorry, Pete. Thanks for the positive words, but that commenter was just a troll. He's not going to set the tone of this thread. And I suspect he's using multiple identities. I have no respect for him. He (or she) seems to be one of these people with personal hostility to me. Or are they all the same person?; 2/22/06, 7:28 PM
Mark Haag said...: My eyes were first drawn to the standing man, wondering if he was waiting, or hesitantly ready to go forward (towards what the three walkers were heading for?). I completely missed the person on the left at first, who seems part of the frame, actually "behind" the picture in a way. Is his gaze (is it a he? Can't see clearly) directed also towards where the people are going? What is he thinking? Finally, nice lines, the table (with tablecloth!), bench, stone wall, and wood fence.; 2/22/06, 8:22 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Quietnorth: I can only say that the real answers to the questions you ask are quite interesting!; 2/22/06, 9:03 PM
mtrobertsattorney said...: You're right Quietnorth, who is that fellow? And what is he looking at that seems to have left him so puzzeled? Interesting photograph.; 2/22/06, 9:26 PM
Maxine Weiss said...: With me, it's all about textures and fabrics. Textiles.

The beautiful stone work. I believe each one of those stones is hand-laid.

The red-checkered table cloth. Remeniscent of a street-corner Italian-American cafe...kind of urbane!

The crisp leather jackets on the men. And, the sort of tweedy coats on the women...is that one woman wearing a genuine camel's hair coat? ---Very Waspy upper class---camel's hair.

I see a certain style and class, that the mood and tone reflects, with just the right amount of urban ethnic sophisticatiion (the tablecloth) thrown in.

Yet, a country Ralph Lauren-ish feel with the overgrown branches of the trees.

This is definitely what we'd call an upscale, "smart" set, with just enough style.

Then again, maybe I'm overthinking it?

Peace,Maxine; 2/22/06, 9:30 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/22/06, 10:58 PM
girlfriday said...: Black and white photography has a power all its own, doesn't it? Even figures walking in the cold can move you.

Or maybe move isn't the word. I want to say evoke, but I'm not clever enough to put it into my sentence.

I'll try this: In color, I don't think this photo would have the power to make me feel cold.; 2/22/06, 11:20 PM
Maxine Weiss said...: ...And definitely meat eaters, ----what with the leather and camel's hair coats. Although I guess you could feasibly be a vegetarian strictly for diet and health reasons, and not care about animal fabrics.

But, that being the mid-West, I'm assuming, with all the corn-fed beef etc.. you might not find as many vegetarians as on the new age-y Coasts?

Horrible generalizations, I know, but still....

---Beef-eating WASPs, I mean that in only the fondest way, truly!!

Peace, Maxine; 2/22/06, 11:23 PM
Pete said...: Wow! I've had my comments deleted on Althouse! People will think I hold truths too terrible to be known! (Help! I can't control my exclamation points!)

No problem, Ann. The least I could do.; 2/23/06, 4:55 AM
Ann Althouse said...: It's not the midwest. It's Texas!; 2/23/06, 6:05 AM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/23/06, 6:56 AM
Richard Lawrence Cohen said...: Most interesting! And how does Ruth Anne know Russ? Ruth Anne, are you sure your real calling wasn't as a detective?; 2/23/06, 8:17 AM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/23/06, 9:00 AM
girlfriday said...: I wondered if it was Texas. But it looks cold. And the people are in coats.; 2/23/06, 9:36 AM
Maxine Weiss said...: See, I was right, beef eaters all!

And, no Jews. Are there Jews in Texas?

Now you know, I'm just kidding.

Peace, Maxine; 2/23/06, 10:17 AM
Richard Lawrence Cohen said...: That was a cold mf'ing day. Waiting and hour and a half in freezing drizzle on a Sunday afternoon to eat some of the best barbecue in the world: pork ribs, beef brisket, and sausage; amazing peach and blackberry cobblers for dessert. People arriving in groups of 8, 10, 13 -- big tables.

Ruth Anne: I shaved it off in 1985, I believe, grew it back around 1994, shaved it off permanently shortly afterward.

Maxine: What gave it away -- the nose? Or the slouch?; 2/23/06, 10:38 AM
Richard Lawrence Cohen said...: Zeldazot is right and I was just going to post their URL. You can get their barbecue FedExed but you have to come here for the experience.; 2/23/06, 11:34 AM
David53 said...: And, no Jews. Are there Jews in Texas?

Have you not heard of the next Governor of Texas, Kinky Friedman?; 2/23/06, 1:49 PM
Ron said...: It looks like the Althousian family reenactment of Woody Allen's Interiors!; 2/23/06, 2:27 PM