Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Helmut Newton is actually one of my favorite photographers! Ken Wilcox >Martin Howard wrote: >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. >-- - -- _____________________ Ken Wilcox klw.51 at comcast.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html