Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can't imagine how a street photographer is going to be influenced by a fashion photographer. Bourdin is a fashion glamour photographer and of course his work is not imitated by " landscape, wildlife and technical. " photographers. He's imitated by fashion photographers. Who else is imitating him is sure not obvious. Tell us!? And what he has to do with Doisneau, Riboud, Boubat, Ronis is anybodies guess other than he's French. My favorite salad dressing is blue cheese but I'd not try to work that into a thread on the work of Doisneau, Riboud, Boubat, Ronis. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Greg Rubenstein <gcr910 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:46:55 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Doisneau, Riboud, Boubat, Ronis > > The Riboud photo selected by Nathan is one of the best > street/photojournalistic/markers of a period/moment ever captured. Great > choice. > > So, at the risk of sounding like a heretic among a group of Leica > "Monentistas," how can any discussion of French photographers not include > Guy > Bourdin, the fabulous fashion man who with his Nikons and obvious influence > from photojournalism, created and staged "moments," visual ambiguities, > conundrums, stories and more mostly in a photo genre we were not discussing > and antithetical to what we do? > > Looking at photography today, his style seems to be the most imitated In > about > every area except landscape, wildlife and technical. > > Yes, I realize this is beyond the scope of the initial question, but had to > ask since all those included in the initial, catholic (intentional > lowercase > "c") query are French. And, yes, I'm aware there are a few more French > photographers, Leica guys even, worthy of mention. > > Yeah, I'm fascinated by Bourdin. > > Thanks for listening. > > Greg Rubenstein > > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information