[Leica] The shoe book is ready to view

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Phil--

When you get that feature article in the Living section of the paper,  
as artiste's commentary on the high perspective level, you might try:

"What we're doing here is not so much studying the shoe as  
actualizing the human interaction of looking at the shoe. After all,  
it is only in the human eye and imagination -- that iconic fantasy  
world of the individual viewer -- that the shoe takes on its timeless  
magic."

... or some such bullshit;^)

I enjoyed the photos

ric


On May 17, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Phil Swango wrote:

> Philippe Orlent wrote:
> Great theme for a book. What is the reason that you kept your camera
> on eye level and not lowereed it?
> (No critique, just an observation)
> =========================
>
> That's a perceptive question, Philippe.  The main reason is that we  
> wanted a
> kind of "in the moment" or "a la sauvette" look, and when I shot at  
> shoe
> level it was hard to avoid static-looking poses.  Also, though the  
> pictures
> were not candid by any means, they were taken during the actual  
> working day
> of the art gallery and getting down on the floor for extended times  
> was not
> always an option when customers were present.  Finally, with my
> eye-level-only Pentax DSLR it was really hard to get low enough and  
> still
> see through the finder.  Ironically, the cover shot was at shoe  
> level, but
> to make it we had to elevate the foot/shoe on a prop.  A few of the  
> pictures
> later in the book were taken nearer to shoe level but you can't see  
> them in
> the PDF preview on the Blurb site.  But I was always a bit  
> concerned that
> the eye-level POV might put some people off.  There are 40 shoe  
> images in
> the book and sometimes it was a challenge to find a fresh way of  
> seeing the
> same type of subject.
>
> The way the book evolved is that I would visit the gallery every  
> day and the
> owners or manager would show me the footwear and outifts they wore  
> to work.
> If something looked interesting we would do a quick shoot, usually  
> lasting
> only 3-5 minutes because they were on work time.  It was a very casual
> project and a lot of fun.  We're now working on a second one.
>
> -- 
> Phil Swango
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