Postby Walter Glover » 01 Jan 2022, 23:12
What a coincidence Maris,
Just yesterday I reached down my copy of "Jock Sturges: Radiant Identities"and had a reminiscent flick through. It reminded me, yet again, of just how wonderful skin in natural light looks captured and contact printed with the micro tonality offered only by 8x10. And now this gem, captured not in an alluring French Naturist enclave but in our own Noosa, corroborates my theoty.
Then there's. that incredible drawing of the 300 mm in the real world. Avedon only ever used a 360 mm, according to his long-term assistant, and it had a look .... bu for me the 300 mm is where it lives for both buildings and walkinng around flesh & blood.
Question without notice (and no suresureintent to offend): speaking as somebody who spent a great deal of his life photographing models on beaches with the perils of sand, salt, spray, UV lotion, sweat and baking heat to say nothing of uncluttered working with the model what would be the purpose of having every camera you own at risk haanging around your neck? Was it really like that? Did it haave the model suitably in awe? Or did Maris seize the opportunity to fabricate a wrry statement?
Walter Glover
"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
— Emanuel Kant