Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun Jan 18 18:35:48 2009
References: <5B13112AD743CA6EF73CB6B2@hindolveston.reid.org>

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?
>
>
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