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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: stasys1 at cox.net (stasys1@cox.net)
Date: Sun Jan 18 12:18:10 2009

Brian- I think the "portraits" are pretty awful. They don't look like 
suitable gov't employees. The lighting, expressions and postures are 
unnatural. I think a student photographer could have done better. Just my 
quick take on them. Stasys
---- Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: 
> 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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