Digital vs film or something else? They do look slick and produced instead
of gritty and documentary. But then McCurry's work has always been posed,
true?
Tina
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Very compelling photos...
> >
> > Compelling, indeed. However, I found something rather disturbing about
> > these photos--something I've been seeing from Steve's work over the
> > last decade. They have gotten "too good". His images have a look of
> > "produced" to them that look too good to be real. The spontaneity in
> > the photos looks contrived as a result. I expect a certain level of
> > "grungy" to these pictures. Maybe something as simple as the piece of
> > trash or a stray dog moseying through the scene.
> >
> > I'm not suggesting that there is anything fake about the images--far
> > from that. What I am saying is that the photos look like they are
> > taken by a commercial photographer, not a photojournalist. This is
> > something I've been sensing about his work from the last 10-15 years,
> > but this set of photographs takes it to another whole level.
> >
> > It's as though he has turned into a stock photographer first--shooting
> > images intended for advertising layouts, not feature stories.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> Actually, now that you mention it, quite a few of them definitely are too
> "clean" and do feel a bit "staged". That was actually my first impression
> of a few of them - that they looked ready-made for a magazine article.
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