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Subject: [Leica] Rural America???? - for the want of an "ism"?
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 13:35:10 +0200
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Under ? naturalism ? you find this for visual arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts) 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)>

;-)


Sometimes, one needs cheat codes :-)

Amities
Philippe


> Le 31 mai 2018 ? 13:24, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> a ?crit :
> 
> +1. These images look like location shoots for this season?s poverty-chic 
> fashions.
> 
> More than laboriously staged (not in itself a bad thing, I would say, if 
> the point is not straight reportage but activism or advocacy), and in some 
> cases intrusively HDR?d, the photos are, and look, posed. This is also not 
> necessarily a bad thing, etc., but here it?s the WAY that the models (I 
> can?t see the people as anything but that) are posed. Their bodily 
> attitudes and often their arrangements in the illustrations look forced 
> and tendentious, completely unnatural, placed in a tableau like mannikins 
> in a display window (I know, I?m mixing fashion metaphors). Crewdson might 
> as well have posted a paragraph with each one lecturing the viewer in 
> detail on what particular pathos is supposed to be engendered by the 
> image, because none is.
> 
> Poverty porn.
> 
> I don?t know what writer on photography would see these as natural. Maybe 
> one who?s never taken a picture.
> 
> ?howard
> 
>> On May 30, 2018, at 15:11, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org 
>> <mailto:lug at leica-users.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> PESO:
>> 
>> "While the photos look natural, they are in fact laboriously staged."
>> 
>> No, they do not look natural.  They look laboriously staged.
>> 
>> https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gregory-crewdson-photographers-gallery/index.html
>> 
>> Opinions?
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> -- 
>> Tina Manley
>> www.tinamanley.com
>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
>> 
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