Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Under ? naturalism ? you find this for visual arts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)> ;-) Sometimes, one needs cheat codes :-) Amities Philippe > Le 31 mai 2018 ? 13:24, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> a ?crit : > > +1. These images look like location shoots for this season?s poverty-chic > fashions. > > More than laboriously staged (not in itself a bad thing, I would say, if > the point is not straight reportage but activism or advocacy), and in some > cases intrusively HDR?d, the photos are, and look, posed. This is also not > necessarily a bad thing, etc., but here it?s the WAY that the models (I > can?t see the people as anything but that) are posed. Their bodily > attitudes and often their arrangements in the illustrations look forced > and tendentious, completely unnatural, placed in a tableau like mannikins > in a display window (I know, I?m mixing fashion metaphors). Crewdson might > as well have posted a paragraph with each one lecturing the viewer in > detail on what particular pathos is supposed to be engendered by the > image, because none is. > > Poverty porn. > > I don?t know what writer on photography would see these as natural. Maybe > one who?s never taken a picture. > > ?howard > >> On May 30, 2018, at 15:11, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org >> <mailto:lug at leica-users.org>> wrote: >> >> PESO: >> >> "While the photos look natural, they are in fact laboriously staged." >> >> No, they do not look natural. They look laboriously staged. >> >> https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gregory-crewdson-photographers-gallery/index.html >> >> Opinions? >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley >> www.tinamanley.com >> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com >> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> <http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug> for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug > <http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug> for more information