Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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. Forgot to ask you in an earlier post but what do you mean by extreme lighting, the sun? brgds simon jessurun - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html