Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sun Jan 18 11:57:02 2009
 
The New York Times magazine just ran a set of portraits of "Obama's People"

  
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2009-inauguration-gallery/index.html

It feels to me as though the photographer went out of his way to make all of 
his subjects look unnatural and bizarre. They are posed awkwardly, the 
lighting is very peculiar, the camera angles are unusual, and the subjects 
were usually photographed off-guard.

What does anybody else think? Was the photographer here trying to create a 
negative perception of these people?
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