Thanks for that tip Jan. I'm very envious of your experience of
meeting Mr Avedon!
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On 22/03/2013 22:23, Jan Faul wrote:
One
of my great learning experiences came about in the 1980’s after
I’d been shooting more than a decade. I was at Fotocare in NYC
in 1980. I was there to pick up a couple of 8x10’s for me and a
fellow photographer in Copenhagen. In the used lens case was a
210 S-. While I was drooling on it, Dick sidled up beside me and
said “Want to thumb wrestle for it?"
So
we struck up a conversation and before long he was letting me
have it doe to where I lived, as lightly used Super-Angulons
never show up in a store in Copenhagen. I picked it up for what
I recall was cheap, packed it up with the rest of my cameras and
stuff and went over to Dick’s studio and watched him shoot a
portrait. It was like a workshop for one in an afternoon.
Although I already knew how to shoot and light a portrait, I got
a crash course in Avedon lighting and the next morning went back
to Fotocre to buy the biggest soff-box they had in stock.
Getting it though DK customs nearly had to involve sex, lies,
and videotape.
Any
of you folks out there who want to shoot portraits, get the
biggest soff-box you can carry and if you can find one, an Octo
to go with it.
Jan
On Mar 22, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Herschel Mair wrote:
Sadly missed.
His book of portraits from the American West
is such an important document.... Straight portraits...
unadorned and un-constructed (To a large extent) People
so readily associate the West with either
California/LA/Hollywood or cowboys and rodeos. So his
pictures of people molded by their immersion in heavy
industry really brings a hard reality check. I can't
stop staring at the images.
On 3/22/2013 3:40 PM, Jan Faul wrote:
The only two
photographers I can think of who don’t shoot smiling
brown faces even though they are on location, are Phil
Borges and Mark Tucker. Even people who should know
better can’t do a portrait without a grinning subject.
I’d put Dick
Avedon on my ‘few smiles’ list, but he is no longer
shooting portraits.
Jan
On Mar 22, 2013, at 1:10 PM, karl shah-jenner
wrote:
From: "Jan Faul" < jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators -
Professionals - Students" < photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Brutal Review of PF members exhibit on
March 16, 2013
One of my objections to photographers shooting the
locals while traveling is that there is a
preponderance of smiling faces aimed at the camera
while we as viewers do not know if they are smiling
because the photographer has just given them $50,
promised them a trip to Disneyland, or other
inducement to smile. I dislike portfolios of
brown-skinned foreigners smiling at the cameras it
reeks of everything bad about Yuppies.
http://www.grumpyoldsod.com/hypocrisy.asp
touches on the subject somewhat..
well, a bit.
I thought it interesting
k
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