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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty-Four: Photographing human response – gesture, body language, and expressions > Thought, Scottsdale Library, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2010
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12-MAY-2010

Thought, Scottsdale Library, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2010

These women had stopped just outside the Scottsdale library to have a discussion. Expressive images can come out of such simple events as this. As the woman in the background took out a notebook to jot something down, the lady in the foreground suddenly brought her index finger to her lips, closed her eyes, and simply focused on whatever she was thinking about. The gesture she uses here symbolically seals her lips, forcing her to converse with herself for a moment through the power of thought.

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Phil Douglis16-May-2010 18:29
Thanks, Claudia and Tim. I was thinking more of the gesture itself, but now that Tim mentions the nature of libraries, that gesture becomes even more significant. Thanks for these comments.
Tim May16-May-2010 16:53
What a wonderful metaphor for the goal of libraries everywhere - information, thought, and contemplation.
BleuEvanescence16-May-2010 13:46
We all do this at times, we don't even realize and it is true, when we are in deep conversation with ourselves, we tend to close-up... and who knows, perhaps a wonderful photographer immortalized that moment and we will never know... Wonderfully capured, as always.
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