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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: stasys1 at cox.net (stasys1@cox.net)
Date: Sun Jan 18 12:37:03 2009

Slobodan- good point. I'm sure a Lug member would have done fine! Stasys
---- Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: 
> Nothing new here. Avedon used this stylistic mannerism for the  
> Mission Council portrait(s) in 1971, and for the Chicago Seven in 1969.
> Though I'm sure it's driven as representative of the sensibilities of  
> the Youth market.
> More of the photographer's abilities:
> http://www.billcharles.com/kander/nadavkander_1.htm
> What bugs me is why they didn't use an American photographer within  
> this economic grip the profession is in.
> sd
> 
> 
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Brian Reid 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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