Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They look terribly overprocessed and unnatural - a Republican photographer? Not in the NYT surely? On the other hand in four years, these photos might actually look pretty....(-: Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:26 AM, 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >