What is it about this photograph?
Aug 8, 2020 11:40:48 #
mbaggs
Loc: Daphne, AL
It’s obvious that most of the posters did not bother to click the link in your post that explained these images. Personally I like the “look” of them and classify them more as artwork rather than photographs. I work as an extra in film and television and have been around more “stars” than I can name but my fascination on sets is the cinematographers and their equipment. I wish I had taken that direction as a youngster. Here's a link to a canon cinema lens, there’s a rather large rental business for cinema lenses... https://www.adorama.com/cae14560pl.html?intsrc=CATF_230
Aug 8, 2020 11:44:27 #
Manny Jay
Loc: Colorado
It's the shadows! Light coming from different directions: Tall man-short shadow, suit-case woman-light'
coming from over head, etc.
coming from over head, etc.
Aug 8, 2020 11:54:24 #
Looks like many of them are separate scenes or individuals and cut and pasted into the Whole scene.
Aug 8, 2020 11:57:00 #
bleirer wrote:
The mannequins are not wearing masks, so it is unrealistic that they would be so near to other mannequins.
Then they're dummies. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.) But they look like mannequins to me, too.
Aug 8, 2020 12:21:02 #
ecurb
Loc: Metro Chicago Area
Linda From Maine wrote:
There is information on her technique and message here:
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager6/press-release
Basically, it's all fake
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager6/press-release
Basically, it's all fake
Yup, pretensious garbage. She, or her agent is one hell of a salesman.
Aug 8, 2020 12:26:43 #
ecurb
Loc: Metro Chicago Area
TomHackett wrote:
Fake or merely staged? Another example is the fifth photo down at this site: https://www.masslive.com/galleries/7CZTDEEYJ5CQDB4BPGDGFZJLXM/
It seems to have a similar aesthetic, although I doubt that it is faked in any way, since the photographer is a respected AP photojournalist.
It seems to have a similar aesthetic, although I doubt that it is faked in any way, since the photographer is a respected AP photojournalist.
If you think AP doesn't stage or shop photographs, do I have a bridge to sell you !
Aug 8, 2020 12:29:36 #
xt2
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
Linda From Maine wrote:
There is information on her technique and message here:
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager6/press-release
Basically, it's all fake
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager6/press-release
Basically, it's all fake
Aug 8, 2020 12:32:40 #
Aug 8, 2020 13:16:20 #
maxlieberman
Loc: 19027
Over-cooked HDR treatment with very high contrast and saturation, so there are no subtle color gradations.
Aug 8, 2020 13:33:06 #
This is a collection of extremely WEIRD images. Rather than analyze them, I prefer to enjoy them. The fist image kinda has a center of interest- the LARGE lady but it's fun to scan all the strange looking folks, stranger expressions, and gestures, and try to figure out what the artist is trying to say. There are many pictures within this picture and of course, this defies the traditional concepts of composition where the is a definite point.
of interest.
Someone mentioned Norman Rockwell- I don't think so! Unless of course, old Norman had a secret life of substance abuse and moonlighted at Mad Magazine to supplement his income from the Saturday Evening Post.
I was overseas during the height of the "flower-power" era- this is what I imagined California looked lie back then!
Now folks- If you really want to see "weird", Google Diane Arbus!
of interest.
Someone mentioned Norman Rockwell- I don't think so! Unless of course, old Norman had a secret life of substance abuse and moonlighted at Mad Magazine to supplement his income from the Saturday Evening Post.
I was overseas during the height of the "flower-power" era- this is what I imagined California looked lie back then!
Now folks- If you really want to see "weird", Google Diane Arbus!
Aug 8, 2020 13:41:12 #
its a cool collection of photos, it is his style.The background struck me because there are no shadows cast from the trie bumpers in the parking lot.
Aug 8, 2020 13:55:49 #
TomHackett wrote:
Take a look at this photograph: "The Extras, ... (show quote)
One thing I notice is that none of the people are really doing anything but posing. The guy with the broom doesn't look like he's sweeping. The clown at the bottom and the woman in the middle are looking at the sky. and none of them really looks like they're relating to one another, even though they are posed next to one another.
Aug 8, 2020 14:18:27 #
All of them done with Photoshop or similar. Probably for advertising or just for the heck of it. I've done pictures like these.
Aug 8, 2020 14:22:52 #
Aug 8, 2020 14:24:57 #
Nothing's real about these. Just creative production. (P.S. I'm just down the river: Newburgh)
In Penny Lane, there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say, "Hello"
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
And little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mac
In the pouring rain, very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It's a clean machine
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer, meanwhile back
Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray…
In Penny Lane, there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say, "Hello"
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
And little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mac
In the pouring rain, very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It's a clean machine
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer, meanwhile back
Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray…
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