Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Humans are objects and they do seem to like being manipulated as well. "All the messy substance" is what most humans try to hide. Look at me: I am simple – no complications – simply divine! Come and worship ME. Do we not all leave out much of the messy bits in our daily interactions? I at times admire and at times loathe fashion photographers. They treat others openly as we all treat others in secret. John Collier PS: I should not hit send but I have been weighed down by extensive readings in evolutionary psychology and... On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 03:04 PM, Martin Howard wrote: > Animal wrote: > >> Those fashion guys are incredible. > > I think most (all?) fashion photography is truly negative. It treats > human beings like objects -- Helmut Newton being at the forefront of > this. In his pictures, you might as well be looking at sports cars, > or watches, or architecture. The women (and men) are nothing more > than a different set of curved surfaces to be lit in an intriguing > manner and shot from a novel (navel?) angle. Personality, persona, > lifestyle, humanism, dignity, is all but completely banished from > almost all fashion photography that I've come across. Indeed, the > cross-processing, extreme lighting, retouching, jaded graphicness of a > lot of fashion photography does all it can to suck out the last > vestiges of human-ness from the images, leaving a clinically clean, > artificial surface, stripped down to it's bare visual form that bears > a resemblance to a real person, but dispenses with all the messy > substance of what actually makes people interesting in the first > place. > > M. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html