Much of the world is now so interconnected that the original Six Degrees game (invented pre-internet) has become rather mundane. With everyone linked to everyone, connecting the dots is a mere formality.
A more interesting variant is Photographic Six Degrees, the object of which is to connect two people only through photographs. Links can be made in one of three ways:
1) Connecting photos made by the same photographer
2) Connecting photos, one of which is made by a person depicted in the other
3) Connecting photos depicting similar subject matter
In the case of Papageorge and the Jackson Five, you might've started with this photograph:
From there it's an easy hop to this one, also by Winogrand (Papageorge was on the scene shooting the same couple but I can't track down the photo):
From there we can use publicity photos, first this one:
And finally this:
Are you ready to try? The object of today's quiz is to connect Mary Ellen Mark and Thomas Jefferson photographically. The person who does so using the fewest links will receive a DVD of Fred Schepisi's 1993 cult classic film Six Degrees of Separation, personally signed by either Will Smith, Stockard Channing, or myself, dependent on availability.
Email entries to me by 1/11/10 containing either images or links to images. Good luck.
2 comments:
It is obvious that MEM's portrait of Toni Morrison, found on her website, is a blatant reference to this picture of TJ:
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hall2/jeff1s.htm
So is that 2 or 3 degrees of separation?
Toni Morrison art is fantastic and very creative arts
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