From: "Christine Aguila"
Funny thing weddings: I once heard a story that the bride wanted the mashed
potatoes served at her reception dinner to be blue--to match the color of
her bridesmaid dresses. I just don't understand what it is about weddings
that brings out--in some instances, of course, not all--the worst sense of
taste--a kind of low brow aesthetic. Imagine what the chef felt when told
he or she had to dye the mashed potatoes blue. I'm sure a groan and a few
choice adjectives were uttered.
I think a lot of it is power politics between the bride and the bride's
mama. Every time mama criticizes something it makes the bride all the
more determined to do it.
I've seen a few wedding photo albums in my time: The overwhelming majority
are lovely, elegant and simple; but I have seen some that are gaudy and
reveal low brow taste, but bad taste has always been around--there's nothing
new about that--and weddings have often been a favorite place for bad taste
to reveal its ugly head. Perhaps all this extremely overdone photoshoppery
in wedding photography is just a trend that will pass rather than an
intractable direction of no return.
I think overdone photoshoppery has two roots.
I remember back about the time PhotoShop 5 was was the latest and
greatest, Adobe was running an ad in all the camera mags showing a VERY
tattooed bride in her dress, touting the ability of the photographer who
was well versed in Photoshop to give the bride's straight-laced elderly
female relatives wedding photos sans tattoos.
The other root is on-line gaming. The bride in that web page someone
else posted looks like an avatar in EverQuest. The Gen-Y crowd that's
getting married now grew up that way.
I'm an optimist. Folks still appreciate and want good art, photography,
music, literature, sculpture, film, theater et al. Sure they get distracted
from time to time and dabble in the trendy--heck, I've done it myself-- but
in the end folks still recognize the good stuff and appreciate it--so let's
continue to give it to them.
Folks may still appreciate good art, photography, ..., but they sure
don't seem to want to pay for it.
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