Dick Avedon- was Re: brown skins

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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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