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As with the
case of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter
Stewart when he famously expressed in his 1964 Order that he could not use
words to describe pornography but "I know it when I see it," I
find it difficult to express verbally what I perceive to be a rather
expansive world of “whimsy.” I do, however, enjoy finding and
capturing examples of it on film (or a microchip, these days) wherever and
whenever I happen upon it. And although my sense of humor definitely
includes a corny side, I have no qualms in sharing it with you, dear
viewer, here and now.
Perhaps the most succinct way in which I can express my photographic
concept of whimsy is to call it a visual pun of one sort or another.
Two of my favorite photographers, Robert Doisneau
and Elliott Erwitt, are, in my opinion, the greatest practitioners of this
particular branch of photography. I
recommend any number of their publications to the reader wishing to pursue
this subject further; in particular Doisneau’s Three Seconds of Eternity and Erwitt’s Snaps.
In the meantime, I hope you’ll enjoy a chuckle
or two in the exhibit which follows, before returning to weightier aspects
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