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
It's the shadows! Light coming from different directions: Tall man-short shadow, suit-case woman-light'
coming from over head, etc.
Looks like many of them are separate scenes or individuals and cut and pasted into the Whole scene.
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.
ecurb
Loc: Metro Chicago Area
Yup, pretensious garbage. She, or her agent is one hell of a salesman.
ecurb
Loc: Metro Chicago Area
If you think AP doesn't stage or shop photographs, do I have a bridge to sell you !
They are not wearing masks
Over-cooked HDR treatment with very high contrast and saturation, so there are no subtle color gradations.
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!
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.
TomHackett wrote:
Take a look at this photograph: "The Extras, 2009," the seventh photograph on this page -
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager6(I'm posting the link, not the photograph, because I did not take it and do not have permission from the photographer to use it.)
There is something about it that I just can't put my finger on. To me, it looks unrealistic. I'm not talking about the scene or other "content" but the "qualities" of the image. I don't know how to describe it--like the difference between the photo of a building and the "artist's rendering." In a way, it seems almost like a drawing than a photograph.
How would one go about achieving this "effect," if that's what it is?
Does anyone see what I mean, or is it just my imagination?
Take a look at this photograph: "The Extras, ... (
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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.
All of them done with Photoshop or similar. Probably for advertising or just for the heck of it. I've done pictures like these.
Look closely at the shadows. They don't all match.
revhen
Loc: By the beautiful Hudson
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…
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