Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks to me they need a lugger to join the team and help them redress this terrible image they're giving of themselves (whatever one's politics are). Ted! Where have you been ! I had never, ever, seen such a bad series of official or semi-official portraits of otherwise most probably likely interesting people; this one is a mere collection of empty looks, non exitent characters, faked attitudes, cubersome involment, etc. worth than railway station snaps you get from the booth while waiting for the next train to Washington DC. Even dictatorships took and still take greater care of their images ... Inversed kudos - soduk? - to the photog and to the editor. Thanks Brian for the link , yet I'm all the sorrier the series exists. Mais l'esp?rance est violente. Phxyz 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >