A series on various historic and prominent figures and how would they see the world if they were photographers.
How would the father of American literature, author of ” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” view the world behind a lens?
Here I will not go beyond the “inquisitive” element, as Mark Twain’s works go well beyond those boundaries specifically into a satire and social criticism arena for which it would require much more work and would be inadequately presented here.
So, the question in this fun experiment is: How to put Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in an image that represents adventure, fun but also caution/fear of the unknown?
The major problem is, how to represent the sense of adventure and pose subjects and movements so as to be adventurous but also cautious and inquisitive while at the same time and not make it theatrically obvious? In other word how to make it look natural.
The sense of adventure in photography is usually represent with some wild vistas, open spaces, but the latter problem represents a major hurdle that can break an image with that specific intention.
To me the image represented here ( Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn ) may in a way partially solve the issue for the following reasons; The movement of the boys is cautions ( they are standing on a wooden fence ( represents the desire for an adventure, their hands are on the fence as they are cautious ) and they are looking into an open space beyond the fence, looking at the open space into the wild. The fence here serves as a symbolic barrier between the wild open space of the unknown and the adventures that lay ahead from one side, and between the path next to the fence as the path represents the safe grounds on the other side.
As always it is a fun experiment.