[Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

Some look a tad others okay. I suspect the allow numbers of photo's per 
person was either just one or pretty low.
 
The stark white background doesn't help.
 
Photographer is no Karsh of Ottawa.
 
Greg Lorenzo
Calgary, Canada> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:56:46 -0800> From: 
reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: LUG@leica-users.org> CC: > Subject: [Leica] 
Dehumanizing portraits?> > 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 
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