Books with On Location LF Portraitures

[richardman]

Ha ha. True. I have seen his photos from his "America's West" series at Stanford's Cantor museum. IIRC, one criticism on that thread was that he made the people all the same way, in front of the white drop, I believe the words used were "stripped of their humanity." Not my feelings, mind you, just quoting. To me, they are certainly neither glamorous nor tell you much about the people except what Avedon wants you to see. A very narrow and forceful interpretation. In other words, IMHO, you are not looking at the people per se, but rather Avedon's messages of the people.

[Richard Johnson]

Yes that was continuous to his work -- that no portrait captures the true subject, they are always the photographer's interpretation, edit and intent. He stripped away all the pretenses of portraiture... elegant lighting and props, the anti-Heisler.

[richardman]

Yes, I prefer the Heisler approach :-) Thanks for commenting.

[Pete Watkins]

I'm gonna get some stick for this but for a modern approach to portraiture look at Frank Petronio's web site.
Pete

[Jim Galli]

A superb little book, The Students of Deep Springs College, by Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee. They were working in the nearby Ancient Bristlecone forest in the White mountains and stopped in to see what the college was about. They stayed a year! Each student was photographed in 10X8 in their environments doing their different tasks. Fantastic, and worthy of more note than I think it ever received.

[Jim Galli]

When I have seen Nixon, he had a 4x5.

I wish we could bet money on that; seriously he shot most of best known work 8x10!

10X12 Deardorff.

[Toyon]

I wish we could bet money on that; seriously he shot most of best known work 8x10!

I have seen him walking on Boston Common with a 4x5 asking passing couples whether he could photograph them.

[EdSawyer]

I'd agree. Frank really has done some great work. I like his attitude too. ;-)

I'm gonna get some stick for this but for a modern approach to portraiture look at Frank Petronio's web site.
Pete

[Domingo A. Siliceo]

Not a book but a blog, Jeffrey Stockbridge works with a 4x5 camera and gets results as beautiful as Kensington Blues.

[anglophone1]

I'm gonna get some stick for this but for a modern approach to portraiture look at Frank Petronio's web site.
Pete

Why?- Frank does great portaiture!

p.s. I miss his attitude don't you?