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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: portraits of power
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:17:55 +0530
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I quite like them, quite a change from photoshopped, smoothed skin -
like Oliver Goldsmith, who commanded the artist commissioned to paint
him:

"I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like
me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses,
pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never
pay a farthing for it."

Incidentally, this is where the phrase 'warts and all' is said to have
originated.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> It reminds me a bit of the Richard Avedon's show in SFMOMA recently -
> I thought it shows off Avedon's skills fine enough, but our friend
> *HATES* it as the photos themselves show so much flaws with the people
> being photographed, but I suppose that is part of the point of those
> images...
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> My thought was - the subjects said "Make me look good" and the 
>> photographer
>> did his best to do the opposite!! ?Those are absolutely the most
>> unflattering photos I've ever seen. ?Most seem to be made with a very wide
>> angle lens, exagerrating the noses and making the faces look very round.
>> ?The post processing is also awful with way too much contrast and detail
>> enhancement with fringing around the head. ?Most of the heads were cut 
>> off.
>> ?They certainly don't look powerful or good.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
> // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog:
> http://rfman.wordpress.com
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>
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