Photographer: Ken Rosenthal
Title: Untitled #FJR-46-5, 2001
Gallery: Meter Gallery
Artist links: kenrosenthal.com
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A baby in distress is NOT a nice picture.
Instead of using the time to take a picture, you should use it to comfort the baby.
That is not Maxwell's baby! It is a professionally taken photograph. So lets not throw darts here.
Yes, a crying baby is not a happy situation but young babies cry A LOT not only because of pain/fear/hunger and em wetness but also because when they are very young thats the only way they can communicate.
This is a very vocal image. Home is about communicating. Its about giggling and cooing and gurgling but also about crying every now and then.
I am getting very tired of these people who do not read a post properly and then unnecessarily post senseless rubbish. Please, read think and only then post. Meanwhile, Ill be in the kitchen section where folks are nicer.
Um, she didn't say she thought it was Maxwell's baby...
She said "...you should"
The post was signed by Maxwell
2+2
Holy shit has anyone see this? It's a rocker from Anthropologie. It's over 3,000 so it's just for drooling over but WOW....It's called the Keinu rocker...that would make my home a home alright...It could even make me look forward to rocking a baby (if I had one). I'd feel like super cool mom!
What fun! Hope you enjoy the find as much as I did - I almost leaped out of my seat in wondrous shock! :)
Dana
Nisha, I think that a big jump. The post also said the photographer was Ken Rosenthal. Maybe she was yelling at him.
And maybe she was just using the "royal you."
(for the record, I think she was overreacting, too, but...)
discussion aside, the photo elicited a chuckle from me.
Yep, that's HOME with a small baby.
he.he.he.
and Sonia, when a baby is crying that hard, you have lots of time to take a pic. That kind of crying can go on for hours.
(and the pic evokes exactly how new parents feel when the kid has a good cry on.)
retitle.
wish i knew what you were looking for
Yeah, this picture disturbs me too. I mean, it's just not very pleasant. It may reflect what it's like to live with a baby, but it's not something I'd hang on my wall or choose to look at. And when I think of "home" ("Home is..."), I think of a comforting place, not one that makes me cry and howl.
The photo would, however, make a good cover for a book, maybe one about how modern life is complicated and frustrating and harsh and how, as a result, many of us want to return to the womb. Or maybe a coming-of-age novel.
pssst....I think they have a brand new baby. And I'll bet she cries once and a while. Anyone think this shows just a little bit of a sense of humor?
I also think the whole series can be considered, to define what home is... I can't wait to see ALL the images together. What a story it will tell, tears and all!!
Cuz I don't know about you, but there are occasionally tears in my home. And I don't even have a baby!!
I guess it had to be told little bird.
I love this picture because it stirs up so many different feelings. And not just in me, apparently.
And this is not meant to be bitchy, Lilybeth, but art is not always meant to be decorative. In fact I would say that there is a lot of art out there that I would not want anywhere near my home, photography being only one medium.
(been having a lot of conversations lately about the purposes of art, don't mind me!)
So I'm guessing Lilybeth would NOT enjoy the work of RISD alum Jill Greenberg... :)
Click my name for the link.
Just someone saying that "home" images are supposed to be limited to those that evoke comfort makes me wish I had the photography skill to do pictures of the drudgery that goes into the housework that makes all that comfort. (No, I don't find scrubbing the toilet to be a Zen moment of insight into the oneness of the universe.)
Judging from some threads, dramatic black-and-white action shots of running mice -- or swarming bed bugs -- might find an audience. Artsy close-ups of stopped-up kitchen sink drains, anyone?
Patrick (the other one) -this could be the the next series - Chairs & (2005), Home Is (2006) and Kids are (2007)...tell it Jill!
How do we know that no one is comforting this baby? It's not like it's a full shot. Plus, Alana is right...sometimes, a baby can cry for an hour straight, despite being comforted.
bird--
Encourage a year of baby pictures? Um, not so much.