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Photo Information
Copyright: Lee Sato (ElSato) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 52 W: 1 N: 13] (77)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-04-25
Categories: Daily Life, Artwork
Camera: Minolta Dimage A1
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/10 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Sato: At The Movies, Sato: Forget it Jake, It's Chinatown [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-04-26 20:28
Viewed: 901
Points: 12
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This image comes from the basement in the same Chinatown mall where I took Flare. In one corner a cramped, tiny space served as a video store, the entire surface of its windows and walls covered in a mass of overlapping, competing, rioting posters.

I love collage, from the dada and surrealist images created by Max Ernst (especially in his book Une Semaine de Bonte, a sample of which is here) to the modern pop art posters of Tadanori Yokoo like this and this.

In the case of this shop, collage approaches something like outsider art in a huge, wonderful, messy, assault on the senses that relies not one bit on formal training and yet achieves an impressive result. All of life's highs and lows are there is you look closely enough: love, enmity, wealth, poverty, loyalty, betrayal, ennui.

Tech: cropping, layering for depth of colour, and I turned up the red and yellow hues (to make up for the inadequate image quality and bring them back to where they were in real life).

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Discussions
ThreadThread Starter Messages Updated
To cwong: Hi Cathy!ElSato 1 05-26 16:48
To c41: Thanks BrianElSato 1 05-09 16:22
To mapashe88: Thanks Jenifer!ElSato 1 05-02 19:37
To nova: Hello again MichelElSato 1 05-02 19:23
To aran: Thanks AranzazuElSato 1 04-27 23:44
To Sutavugu: The crowdElSato 1 04-27 23:23
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Hello Lee,
Good picture.. Interesting work.. I like the compoisition..
I looked for Musa, but couldn't see.. And Zhnag Ziyi, is there any in that crowded?
Congrats..

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  • aran Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 128 W: 21 N: 20] (388)
  • [2005-04-27 6:20]
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Interesting idea, I've seen your job and I think it is very original and personal. I like the colours and the composition. Well done!

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  • nova Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2963 W: 268 N: 841] (8163)
  • [2005-04-29 0:31]
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I like this image! I am a postcards collector and when I look at it,I feel like looking at a postards collection from China! Very interesting for me! Well presented! Nice collage! Best regards! Michel

i like this picture...
specially the colors...
;OD

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  • c41 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 99 W: 21 N: 0] (0)
  • [2005-05-09 5:18]
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Great collage Lee, Ive got a heap of chinese movies like these at home:) the last one i saw was about a cop (who was played by a singer) and wore a body suit for the movie to make him look like arnold. Title was something like DA GI LAO, sorry cant spell it in chinese and i cant translate the cantonese...except for the DA=BIG..... maaybe BIG GUY ? i dunno.... anyway good shot :)

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  • cwong Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 89 W: 14 N: 43] (332)
  • [2005-05-23 23:35]
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Hmmm... it seems to be a collage of old chinese movies... very interesting. I like the idea and colours.. nice collage. TFS

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