Men and Women exhibition by Tom Wood at the Photographer's Gallery overall didn't work for me, although I am a big fan of street photography. I understood this to be a library of portraits shot by Wood in Liverpool over a number of years and I think it's an excellent catalogue of images from a curational perspective, but I didn't like it. I couldn't get any meaning from it or relate to it. However, there were two images that I found funny: Mad Max and Three Wise Women, both of which have also been selected by the journalist Sean O'Hagn for commentary.
With Mad Max, apart from the obvious comedy, the colours are interesting: complimentary blue and orange but not in the Freeman recommended proporations of 2:1 - this is more like 1:5 and for me it works. I don't agree with the ratio theory and like this proportion where the majority is orange.
I like Three Wise Women because it reminds me of Last of The Summer Wine. It's funny - that's it. For more information see:
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