broken, lost, and abandoned.. a response

'Broken, Lost, and Abandoned' by David Loew


"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness."  - Paul Strand.
 This photograph taken by photographer, David Loew, reveals the core of humanity in a sense of being broken, lost, and abandoned. In the photograph, our eyes are drawn to the center of focus, a figure part woman, part antique painted figurine. She is a doll abandoned who seems to gaze right through you. We do not know her past, present, or future or the circumstances surrounding her position and I find myself wondering who she is and why she is feeling what she seems to be feeling. The contrasting darkness between the milky skin of the female and the vintage browns of the background really make the subject stand out and helps to convey that surreal twilight zone feeling. David Loew himself describes his work as, “Combining natural media and photographic imagery in a digital environment allows me the freedom to work with a wide range of dreamlike images and textures both real and surreal...I have been influenced as much by film and Television as I have other painters. I grew up with the Twilight Zone and it has integrated itself into my world view. Blade Runner and Dark City are both strong influences in my work. As far as painters there is Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and along with Magritte and Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel.” I love the way David Loew has edited the image by incorporating cracked paint and watercolour mark effects into the picture which turns it into an artwork and adds to the moody 'broken' look expressed in the female and her posture. I also reckon that the pose is staged, yet it has this informal feel about it that makes it appealing to the viewer. As Susan Sontag quotes,"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.." we look at this picture, and find we look at ourselves, and we wonder..What to us is lost, broken, and abandoned?


www.davidloewphoto.com
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