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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: kargue at sympatico.ca (Kevin Argue)
Date: Sun Jan 18 19:52:24 2009
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Clayton,
               I wouldn't call this dehumanizing or new photographic  
style.
The photos are just bad!

Kevin Argue

On 18-Jan-09, at 9:50 PM, R. Clayton McKee wrote:

> Don't think we're seeing intentional dehumanization; this is just the
> birth of a New Photographic Style introduced by a Daring New Artiste
> in the pages of the Newly Hip Magazine Of The New Hip Era.
>
> (and yeah, it's crude and ugly and inhuman... and I hope it's not
> representative OF the New Era.)
>
> Quoth the Brian Reid :
>
>
>> The New York Times magazine just ran a set of portraits of "Obama's
>> People"
>>
>>
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