This is a photo is from the personal collection of Kalle Gustafsson called "Speakeasy". For me, the studium is the sense of nostalgia (of the 1960s). Due to the lighting it kind of implies or suggests that there's an air of mystery, and due to the lack of color variation maybe a notion of homogeneity? That might be reading a little too much into it but I feel that this could very well almost be a still from a mystery movie. Though I think it's interesting that while they're physically near there seems to be a disconnect between the man and woman. For me this is kind of the punctum. But more specifically, the packet of the cigarettes are the punctum. It's directly on the middle line, and the whites of the filter seem to be very obvious, and yet there's the slight golden lining around it which is different color scheme wise than the majority of the photo.
Caitlin,
ReplyDeleteI actually find the punctum, for me, to be the wrinkles in the man on the phone's shirt. Everything else in the image is so perfectly coiffed and smooth that the wrinkles really stand out for me as working against what the general feel in the rest of the image.
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