Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Squares and sabotage
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:56:25 -0000

>
> > The so-called "environmental portrait" is so over-used in
> photojournalism
> it
> > has become a cliche -- I should know, it has become a
> crutch in my work.
> One
> > that I struggle to break out of.
>
I don't know whose post this was, and therefore whom I'm about to
insult...BUT...

How can a horizontal portrait be a "cliche" when the vertical, which is how
99.9% of the world's "portraits" are taken, isn't?

Whether any shot is a cliche depends not on whether it is horizontal or
vertical, but what it is and what it shows...