[Leica] Portraits of Awkward Adolescents Posing on Beaches

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

P.S. Lou, I was NOT referring to you, but rather to the 'artist.'
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From: Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>
Sender: lug-bounces+bd=bdcolenphoto.com at leica-users.org
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:15:20 
To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Portraits of Awkward Adolescents Posing on Beaches

Sorry, I was explaining why it's impossible not to pose
 On Jun 23, 2012 12:43 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> That is quite a long winded explanation of justifying obvious posing as not
> posing... (-:
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, yes and no. Not posing when one is aware that one is being
> > photographed just isn't possible since it's merely a special case of
> being
> > aware that you're being looked at. We all 'pose' in this respect. A
> second
> > issue is the necessity of providing grist for the textual side of current
> > gallery, publication and museum mill. Something, even if it isn't right
> on
> > the money, has to be said as a segue for viewers into the work. Finally,
> > there is some truth to her statement. When you tell teenagers not to pose
> > it become interpreted by them to mean" "Don't pretend to be an adult, and
> > don't act like a child," yet what teenager is totally comfortable with
> > himself as is, especially when that self is so transitory? This is the
> > awkwardness that she captures.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I like them but I don't understand why she says,  ?I was interested in
> > > photographing people at moments when they had dropped all pretense of a
> > > pose.?
> > >
> > > When they are all obviously and self-consciously posing!
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Since her praxis & work came up recently in another thread:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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