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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Mon Jan 19 07:36:40 2009
References: <5B13112AD743CA6EF73CB6B2@hindolveston.reid.org><49748995.1070108@summaventures.com> <F56E4221-F88E-429B-AEC0-A95231307675@cox.net>

Steve, you have stated the only real question: why?

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?


>
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>
>> Truly awful.
>>
>> What were the teams that I suppose must have been in the room doing?
>> No excuse
>> these were digital, there will have been every opportunity to vet
>> what happened,
>> particularly with such a large group to shoot their way through.
>>
>> Imagine what would be said if a LUGger wasted such an opportunity
>> and posted
>> this lot ;-)
>
>
> imho, yes, they are overall quite awful (subjective), one would think
> by design (it was their design, not the subjects', despite what they
> say, and presumably the photographer is competent) ...
>
> the only question is...what were they trying to accomplish?
>
>
> Steve
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> ===========================================================
>> Dr Peter Dzwig
>>
>>
>>
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