Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] modern photoreportage?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri Jan 11 08:45:01 2008
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At 11:31 AM 1/11/2008, you wrote:
>Frankly, these subjects look even more lost than the subjects of the Tulsa
>project. But I have to say that there's something about the style that I
>find troublesome. It's not the fact that she's shooting color, or the
>softness. Rather, there's something about a number of them that makes me
>question the reality of them. Maybe it's simply that after all the years of
>'heroin chic,' and Kyle's gotharama, I'm more suspicious of things being
>posed.
>
>B. D.

My first impression was that they were posed.  I don't really know 
why, but going back and looking at them again, I still get that impression.

Tina

Tina Manley
ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI
http://www.tinamanley.com
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