[Leica] modern photoreportage?

[imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)]

Interesting observation and indirectly bears on my point.
When fashion style attempts to emulate social documentary style, and  
documentary style becomes fashionable, we need to care for our  
ability to differentiate and try not to become numb to the barrage of  
images before us.

On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:31 AM, B. D. Colen 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.

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George
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