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learning the trade at Mirecourt


learning the trade at Mirecourt
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Copyright: Catherine M D (noborders) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 136 W: 0 N: 158] (724)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-09
Categories: Daily Life
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2008-10-10 2:26
Viewed: 454
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Guillaume, 17 years old, is doing his apprenticeship in his father's famous workshop in Mirecourt (Vosges, east France), a small town famous for his luthiers (making and repairing string instruments) since centuries.

Other youngsters, less priviledged, go to professional training lasting for 2 years if I remember well and will need to do "stages" afterwards.

Guillaume loves his job and his future is easy to guess, but he will have to fight fierce competition as there are lots of workplaces in the same town doing the same thing and unfortunately, the practice of a musical instrument is not compulsory in the schools in France, unlike in other countries - not in mine either... So there are not many violin, cello etc. players and not a big demand for new instruments.

(Comments welcome but no rating, please : I cannot see point anymore, nor won't I give any on TL - no time these days to be often on TE and TL ! Thank you)
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Bonjour Catherine,
Chouette que tu fasses parfois encore un crochet par TrekLens.
J'aime cette image pour son côté "journalistique". Il s'en dégage une simplicité qui la rend vraie...
En même temps les paramètres photographiques (lumière, netteté, composition) sont irréprochables. Et puis, le fait d'avoir la tête de Guillaume bien "en vue" dans cette composition (elle semble "attirée" par ta caméra et, de ce fait, un rien "trop" grande par rapport à son corps, lui, "en retrait") est très intéressant ici: cela souligne l'extrême concentration du jeune homme.
Du beau travail.
Merci du partage & amicalement,
Erik

Catherine, j'adore la lumière et le sujet !
j'aime bien aller chez les luthiers, l'ambiance de leur atelier...
j'ai même été dans un atelier de fabrication de hautbois à lépoque où j'en jouais, que c'est intéressant de voir ces artistes du bois à l'oeuvre !
amitiés
jc

I love the light, the POV and the detail of this shot. Terrific composition, I like the way attention is brought down into this little intimate corner, in essence imitating the way the craftsman himself must be focusing.
Rew

hi catherine.

awesome. this is my kind of take. so much concentration you have presented here. very detailed. + the notes is a bonus. my congratulation.

roald
*did a ws, just an experiment.

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