Dick Avedon- was Re: brown skins

Herschel Mair <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:56:47 -0600



    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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