Topic: Portraiture (Read 142516 times)

Thank you. That particular critter is currently dangling on my monitors as it is now getting cooler outside.
Can be tricky to work at times when they all want to get on board as menus vanish beneath fur, tails and legs.
It helps I use keyboard shortcuts for most things.

jjj · « **Reply #188 on:** November 06, 2015, 11:48:54 am »

Cat photography can get recursive....

MattBurt · « **Reply #189 on:** November 06, 2015, 12:00:24 pm »

Quote from: jjj on November 06, 2015, 10:16:27 am

Indeed.
However Michael I gather is not too keen on cat photos. So we can all blame MattB for this.

I'm a younger sibling so I'm used to getting the blame. But I didn't even post any of the many cat photos I have taken!
Like this one for example.

IMGP1214-Edit by Matt Burt, on Flickr

GrahamBy · « **Reply #190 on:** November 10, 2015, 04:37:54 pm »

So, is this a portrait?

Chairman Bill · « **Reply #191 on:** November 10, 2015, 05:33:09 pm »

Meh, I don't see any cat in the photo.

GrahamBy · « **Reply #192 on:** November 10, 2015, 05:53:08 pm »

Good point.

Rob C · « **Reply #193 on:** December 13, 2015, 03:36:19 pm »

Okay, it's in Spanish, but the pictures you can access are not!

Penn; 'nuf said.

https://belfioreph.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/irving-penn-maestro-del-retrato/

Rob C

GrahamBy · « **Reply #194 on:** December 14, 2015, 06:56:54 am »

Outstanding... particularly the nude of Kate Moss, where she manages to look simultaneously serious, comfortable, private and, well, nude.

Plus of course of course all those blocked up shadows in the Pacino shot, terrible technique ;-)

GrahamBy · « **Reply #195 on:** December 15, 2015, 03:57:48 am »

Also worth following the link to the gallery of images by Jeanloup Sieff

http://culturainquieta.com/es/erotica/item/573-jeanloup-sieff.html

Rob C · « **Reply #196 on:** December 15, 2015, 12:43:06 pm »

Quote from: GrahamBy on December 15, 2015, 03:57:48 am

Also worth following the link to the gallery of images by Jeanloup Sieff

http://culturainquieta.com/es/erotica/item/573-jeanloup-sieff.html

Thanks, Graham; he's one of my favourites. If you don't yet have his Taschen book, called, simply, Jeanloup Sieff, I recommend it to you. Some of the pictures in your link are included, and some (in the link) are totally new to me, so a double thanks. For my money, his writing in the book is as interesting, funny and sharp as are his images. My copy, bought in Spain, has Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. I get by using a mix of the first two - perhaps the edition in less 'Latin' of the European countries has a text in English, French and German? Along with Cowboy Kate, it's my prized tome! I would, however, have preferred Five Girls to Cowboy...

Rob C

GrahamBy · « **Reply #197 on:** December 15, 2015, 03:48:35 pm »

Will look it up, thanks :-)

A propos, last night I tripped over this youtube version of the Gainsbourg-Birkin "Je t'aime"... do you know if the photo is be Sieff ? The wikipedia site has some portraits by him of Gainsbourg in a similar style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

(and for those who don't know the history of this song... it's worth looking up

)

Rob C · « **Reply #198 on:** December 15, 2015, 05:18:12 pm »

Quote from: GrahamBy on December 15, 2015, 03:48:35 pm

Will look it up, thanks :-)

A propos, last night I tripped over this youtube version of the Gainsbourg-Birkin "Je t'aime"... do you know if the photo is be Sieff ? The wikipedia site has some portraits by him of Gainsbourg in a similar style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

(and for those who don't know the history of this song... it's worth looking up )

I haven't seen the image before, but I'd be surprised if it's Sieff. Most of his work is simply lit with what seems to be a single key light.

The song, AFAIK, was originally done in conjunction with BB but she changed her mind and didn't want her version with him released - or some such story. However, there's a voice in my head telling me that I have heard her sing this, but it could just be 'voices' as I say.

Rob

GrahamBy · « **Reply #199 on:** December 15, 2015, 05:58:35 pm »

BB's husband of the time wasn't thrilled, so she begged SG not to release it. But years later she went back to him and suggested they release it, in 1986 I think. The Birkin version came out in early 1969.

Here we are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_t%27aime..._moi_non_plus

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