I chose to respond to the blog titled Love, Lust, and Loss: A Photographic Memoir of the 80's. I first thought that the title including love, lust and loss was so broad and covered just about anything but at the same time it is basically all inclusive and are topics that can connect a large amount of people, which appears a goal of the photographers. The photographer mentions wanting to capture moments of humanity while being able to completely ignore society and the institutions that were created about society that causes the separation between each. I read as though the main goal of was to photograph the realness of the 80's and what was happening but also what came of that, the good or bad didn't matter it was just the truth.
I think that this was very accurately captured in the photographs. I think the black and white gives the appeal to a sense of reality and the truth, very similar to something I am trying to capture in my own work which kept my attention the more I looked at this. All kinds of people from different, cliques, backgrounds, areas or society and essentially any other differential label is included, which gives this a reality of the 80's. I think the title is perfect because no matter what is being photographed it is very true that love, list and loss is a huge connector for what is being displayed. There is so much happening in these works that hold so much content that you simply can't just look at them for a few seconds and move on. The photographer did a great job at being able to entice the viewer in the photographs which would essentially make them think further about what he wanted to get across.
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