It was posed. This lady and I did a whole series of posed shots in a trailer park.
I personally have no misgivings in regard to staging a photograph, although I don't want them to look posed. If you remember I posted a reference to an article in last Sunday's New York Times about a photographer who does staged street photography on large format. His prints have sold for over a million dollars. On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/2/2007 8:17:24 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm somewhat surprised that there was no response to my post of a >>> picture of a woman in what coucl be called an aniti-social >>> environment. >>> It's not unlike an Arbus pic, although not as well executed perhaps. >>> >>> Is the total silence due to the content or the execution? Or perhaps >>> it >>> never made it to the list. No big deal, just curious. >>> Paul >>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5667450&size=md > > =========== > It looks too deliberate to me -- carefully laid out and posed. From > the > towel, to the beer cans, to the cigarette pack carefully sticking out > of her > pocket. Was it for an ad for something? Very retro, though. > > Marnie aka Doe > > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers > free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
