That's why i stick to posting here.
Some might feel it's a move for easy praise, but sharing with a knoledgeable, smaller community of photographers without the underlying ego competition seen pretty much everywhere else does make sense, isn't it?
And you still get your share of constructive criticism, reading between the lines -or not. Who cares for rudeness or inflating selves?
Not a great fan of the wikithang, but on, some topics they get it right... here's an abstract of what they say (related to the above comment):
"Interpellation is a concept used [...] to describe the process by which ideology addresses the (abstract) pre-ideological individual thus effectively producing him or her as subject proper. [...] against the classical definition of the subject as cause and substance:
in other words, the situation always precedes the (individual or collective) subject [...] Althusser's argument here strongly draws from Jacques Lacan's concept of the Mirror stage. [...]Interpellation, Althusser's idea based on Lacan, specifically involves the moment and process of recognition of interaction with the ideology at hand. Foucault eschews the notion of ideology and his structuralist analytics are quite antithetical to Lacanian notions of Real, Symbolic, Imaginary."
And about Mirror image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_stage
In Forrest words?
Well, Lloyd cornered the idea perfectly above: go and take the same last photo wearing a pink tights & tutu.
Then not only you'll definitely step into Lacanian territory, but you'll probably altogether get a winner to get a flattering eulogy in the very same places where you got "lambasted"
:deadhorse:
Seriously, i don't know about "purpose"
(guess we could have a long discussion about the respective merits of "purpose" and "creative instinct" while communicating in visual form, well...), but the kinda undestated Lynchian touch in this series is more than enough to "interpellate" me -but not unlike Forrest (as you already know, my favourite movie character), i'm a simple guy.
"We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named "Charlie".