Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's fair enough, Peter. A chacun son go?t. They ARE artificial, but many great photographers have used artifice - think Philippe Halsman, Man Ray, Sally Mann, and myriads more. Anytime there is any direction in a portrait, that's artifice, even getting the subject to sit in a certain manner in a certain light... I happen to enjoy Blackmon's particular artifice in setting up these shots, and wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of them. However, I have a major hurdle living with me. My wife likes paintings and doesn't mind me buying those, but baulks at photographs :-) Keep safe! Douglas On 20/04/2020 15:14, Peter Dzwig wrote: > I have to say I don't get them at all! I just can't see the point. They > all look very artificial to my eye... Sorry. > > Petr > > On 20/04/2020 12:17, Douglas Barry wrote: >> In my mooching idleness, I was going through business cards from some of >> the exhibitors from a couple of Paris Photo exhibitions of some years >> ago. One was from the NY Robert Mann GaIlery, and I like this lady's >> stuff. >> >> http://www.robertmann.com/works-julie-blackmon >> >> Of course, I'd like to see the images in a bigger size. Still, some of >> you may also like them. >> >> Douglas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information