--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <reavismarek@> > wrote: > > > > Totally Parrish. It's beautiful, too. That's Hillary, right? > > On the White House balcony or something? What a great political > > poster. > > The caption didn't say (it was from a story linked to from the > DrudgeReport) but it does look like the White House balcony. > > I think it's the most beautiful photograph I've ever seen of > her...and she'd be crazy not to use it, front and center, in > her campaign. > > The Congressman from my district take a photograph of him, his > wife, and five kids and uses it as his main campaign poster > every two years whenever he's up for reelection. It's a really > beautiful-looking family and I swear half the votes he gets is > on the basis of those posters! And I find myself looking forward > to how the family will look every two years when the new poster > comes out.
I think it's fascinating to see how different people from different countries choose to portray themselves in photos intended to convey their "image" as a political leader, or a business leader, or even as a spiritual leader. A few times in my business life I've gotten to witness the creation of the company's Prospectus or Business Report. And the choice of the photo that is used to represent the CEO or President of the company and the Board of Directors is often belabored over for months. Interestingly, in the American companies I've worked for, the photographers try to go for a dynamic, lively look (which is not always easy when you're taking photos of mainly Men In Business Suits). They try to make the guys look as athletic and on-top-of-it physically as possible. And then there was Ciba-Geigy, a Swiss corporation, which chose to portray its CEO and the Board of Directors in photos that made them look like corpses who just hadn't gotten the news of their death yet. I am told that the Swiss approach worked well for the types of people who are looking for "Swiss reliability," whereas the lively US approach worked well for those who were looking for CEOs willing to take a chance for a buck. I agree that it's a nice photo, but it's not quite Maxfield Parrish-y. You'd need a few more pastels in the sky and reflected on Hil's face to make it a Parrish.
