Armchair

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

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"Armchair" - Cedric Massoulier


Nikon D700 & AF-D 2/35
Raw file processed in Capture One Pro

[Mike Shimwell]

Hi Cedric,

I really like this. Gentle colour, mixed light and simple shapes. Plus a sense of home.

Mike

[Michael Fontana]

Bonsoir Cédric

a challenge, that ambiguity between that demanding armchair and the open door - I like much that you often find and express that ambiguity in your image - but I'd like to see a version with a real vertical door/wall, as it beeing slope, it distracts from what I think is interesting in that image.

Somehow, I think that the pathos of the chair requires that formal strengh, not knowing yet if the chair will look a bit ridiculous, then. But it's wort a try.

[Asher Kelman]

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"Armchair" - Cedric Massoulier


This Cedric is a fine picture for me. Why? After all, for interior architecture is neither modern, excotic, of any particular period or anything one would generally envy. So why does it have an attraction? It's perhaps the feelings of stark emptiness, absence and waiting that beguile us.

It's an enigma that can distract me from what's pressing and tell me how full my life is. This chair is empty and too large. The door is open and there's no reason for it. There's no one coming or going. There's no sense of abandonment of the past, rather a summary of waiting, like "Waiting for Godot". We understand that nothing is going ot happen just the process of waiting.

This picture should be seen together with "The Boy and a Cemetery" here (http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=81190), as it's also embedded in an existential frame of reference.

I appreciate these pictures.

Asher

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Hi,

Thank you all for your kind comments.

I was indeed very interested by this atmopshere, revealed by this piece of an old house...
One detail is very important : armchair is one-eyed ;)

Cedric.