Comments on: Photo Greatness http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/ You just go on your nerve. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:16:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark Hillringhouse http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-18379 Mark Hillringhouse Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:48:25 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/#comment-18379 I was happy to see some comments here on Tice's Petit's Mobil Station. I know George pretty well now having interviewed him and written about him and having gone out with him to help him with his last Paterson II book. I wrote a feature on him for the November 2006 View Camera. I am in the middle of a long essay over four thousand words on Petit's Mobil Station. I was even able to contact the former owner of the station, Fred Pettit (George got the spelling wrong). All this started as a meditation on the photograph, what it meant to me and how I related to it over the years and what it symbolizes as a psychic portrait of our times. For the last part of my essay, I plan on driving down to photograph the station myself and to walk into the space. It is a Lukoil station now. The water tower was painted white. It has been a long, interesting journey with one of America's great photographs. Mark I was happy to see some comments here on Tice’s Petit’s Mobil Station. I know George pretty well now having interviewed him and written about him and having gone out with him to help him with his last Paterson II book. I wrote a feature on him for the November 2006 View Camera. I am in the middle of a long essay over four thousand words on Petit’s Mobil Station. I was even able to contact the former owner of the station, Fred Pettit (George got the spelling wrong). All this started as a meditation on the photograph, what it meant to me and how I related to it over the years and what it symbolizes as a psychic portrait of our times.

For the last part of my essay, I plan on driving down to photograph the station myself and to walk into the space. It is a Lukoil station now. The water tower was painted white.

It has been a long, interesting journey with one of America’s great photographs.

Mark

]]> By: Personism » Blog Archive » What Makes a Great Photo (according to Digg users) http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-9529 Personism » Blog Archive » What Makes a Great Photo (according to Digg users) Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:53:56 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/#comment-9529 [...] people have spoken. As mentioned yesterday, Jörg’s What Makes a Great Photo? post has been generating a lot of buzz. Once it was [...] [...] people have spoken. As mentioned yesterday, Jörg’s What Makes a Great Photo? post has been generating a lot of buzz. Once it was [...]

]]> By: Nelson Chan http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-9489 Nelson Chan Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:28:34 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/#comment-9489 I spent time with Tice at his house in NJ while he was teaching me printing skills as well as critiquing my work. The day before I arrived, he was printing a 16"x20" of "Petit's". Eccentric man. I'm not sure if you know the story behind the title of this photo, but Tice ran into the store and asked the man what is name was. He mistook the store clerk (Petit) as the owner. I find that, that little back story contributes to the beauty of the photograph. In this photograph, Petit is the man. Much respect. I spent time with Tice at his house in NJ while he was teaching me printing skills as well as critiquing my work. The day before I arrived, he was printing a 16″x20″ of “Petit’s”. Eccentric man. I’m not sure if you know the story behind the title of this photo, but Tice ran into the store and asked the man what is name was. He mistook the store clerk (Petit) as the owner. I find that, that little back story contributes to the beauty of the photograph. In this photograph, Petit is the man. Much respect.

]]> By: Jen Bekman http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-9487 Jen Bekman Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:28:47 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/#comment-9487 Thanks for the tip Tim! Thanks for the tip Tim!

]]> By: tim atherton http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-9480 tim atherton Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:57:01 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/photo-greatness/#comment-9480 Nice article about Tice (and a big repro of that picture) in the latest Focus Mag http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/03/john-szarkowski-and-george-tice.html Nice article about Tice (and a big repro of that picture) in the latest Focus Mag

http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/03/john-szarkowski-and-george-tice.html

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