Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Dehumanizing portraits?
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sun Jan 18 22:16:38 2009

On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:56 AM, 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
>
> What does anybody else think? Was the photographer here trying to  
> create a negative perception of these people?
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Ugh!  I get the NYTimes on Sunday, and it seems they only let movie stars, 
etc.
look good.  A few weeks ago the magazine had some Hurrell-inspired B&W 
portraits
that I liked.   But I think this is the "we're so hip, and you're so not" 
gimmick.
Conventional photography would be too mainstream.  

OK, have off-beat moments, but at least have some decent lighting.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/