Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > The New York Times magazine just ran a set of portraits of "Obama's > People" > > http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2009-inauguration-gallery/index.html > > It feels to me as though the photographer went out of his way to > make all of his subjects look unnatural and bizarre. They are posed > awkwardly, the lighting is very peculiar, the camera angles are > unusual, and the subjects were usually photographed off-guard. > > What does anybody else think? Was the photographer here trying to > create a negative perception of these people? yup, he nailed them... they make a big point...let the people be seen the way they want to be seen ...yeah, sure , right... so Axelrod wants to be seen with cookies, so they take some with cookies, take away the cookies, take some more, and show the ones without the cookies... cus the ones with cookies "almost didn't look real".... I feel clearly the photographers got what they wanted to get, not what the subject wanted to give them... Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information