Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find never like Sieff's 35mm work. It's too grainy for my taste. Also, his use of negative space always made me feel like he was winging it, out of control. I never like the _european_style of printing that dominates Sieff's work. I find Bailey's 120 work much tighter. I get a sense of action, even in his portraits, almost of an imminent sense of activity. But, being predominately a 120 shooter, I realize that I have a bias in that direction. Slobodan Dimitrov Guy Bennett wrote: > > Well, I got on over the Hennessey & Engalls and picked up the next to the > last copy of D. Bailey's "Birth of the Cool," which I spent the late > afternoon and early evening going through. I very much like the hard, > graphic style of his early '60s stuff, but feel that he gets less rather > than more interesting as the decade goes on. Just for fun, I then flipped > through my copy of Jeanloup Sieff's "40 Years of Photography." Like Bailey, > he's most well known for his fashion photography and portraiture (though > he's also a master of the nude, IMO), and actually worked for a number of > the same mags as D.B. Well, I came away with the impression that Sieff's a > much better photographer; compositionally he's a lot stronger and more > inventive than Bailey in both the fashion work and in the portraits, and he > takes a chance on images that don't fall into either of those categories - > landscapes, "art" photography (sorry 'bout that), interiors - and > frequently pulls them off. For those who go for this sort of thing, he's > also a very articulate writer about photography, and the book includes a > number of memorable passages. Anyone interested in this kind of stuff would > do well to pick up a copy of this wonderful book, which, with its hundreds > of beautiful reproductions, is one hell of a bargain at $39. > > Such are my ruminations for this evening. > > Guy > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html