Hi again Ann >> I think that as a photographer you have to work through a variety of >> styles and preferences along the way, and Newman was trying something >> different. Obviously not all his work is the same. Later, he did lots of >> stuff with the sitter as part of a larger design incorporating props or >> other external design elements, and later still using collage, with bits >> of a single image chopped up and reassembled. It's still a portrait in >> my book. >> >In my book, only technically. Sorry Cotty, but >what you are telling me >in more detail about what Newman did really is >just a kind of >photography I don't care for. Note the difference >between this kind of >portraiture and the wonderful and revealing HCB >stuff of equally famous >folk. > >> I think the shot of Truman is fantastic - to me it illustrates a >> different way of looking at a face - one that had been photographed many >> times previously (and since). I don't understand what is clever about >> it. To me it's just different. :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Cotty >> >Ah, Cotty, my luv, we just ain't goona meet on >this one. I don't think >it is so "different" even. I'm not much >interested in people photos >on the whole, anyway, but when I like 'em it is >when I can see who >they are, something about them, from the way the >camera caught them - >candid stuff grabs me, formal portraits just leave >me cold. > >cheers 2, >ann
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