[Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

My impression is that it's a triumph of artifice over art.

It almost feels like a performance piece by the photographer.

Some of the portraits are nice enough, but others seem contrived to me.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/

On Jan 18, 2009, at 2:56 PM, 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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