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Equipment & Techniques => Pro Business Discussion => Topic started by: Rob C on August 29, 2019, 03:21:05 pm
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Great photographer telling it like he feels it.
I may have linked to this elsewhere on LuLa, but just in case not, here we are again:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2u2RnAAP9k#fauxfullscreen
Rob
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Rob, loved it! Thanks for the link.
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He's gone, but he was great!
I think he tells a lot of truth about the job, and about how you have (had to?) be in order to get to the top of the business.
http://www.martynmoore.com/donovan.html
But even then, something went very badly wrong.
To round up another of the black trinity:
https://www.duffyarchive.com/videos/bbc-documentary-man-shot-sixties/
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So very sad.. RIP...
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And now Peter Lindbergh has bitten the dust.
I have no idea what happened, of course, but I wonder if he knew it was coming soon?
Looking at his latest work, which you can find on petelindbergh.com, gives me the impression that he had reached a new level of photographic peacefulness in his work; there's a sort of gentleness that I don't remember seeing so clearly, almost as if love is coming straight into and out of that camera.
Have a look at the Numero shoot of this year, with Birgit Kos:
http://www.peterlindbergh.com/stories/174
Pictures that could have had an entirely different projection -with the same light/location/clothes - are softly expressed, which was not always his way. Of course I could be projecting my own mind and hindsight here, but I think it's more than that at work. I think he knew; yes, I think so; I think he was making a last, gentle, visual statement of sorts.
Rob
P.S.
Went out and did something unusual: bought British Vogue, perhaps his last issue, unless something else has been shot and sits at the printers waiting to come out. Funny thing: I don't really want to open it.
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Well, I did eventually open it, and almost instantly regretted it.
Lindbergh's photos are very few; the advertising pages are peopled by what the Scots used (maybe still do) to call stookies; the editorials pages left me cold. Can I have my 9.99 euros back, please?
One good thing: the buying adventure has utterly, utterly removed any lingering fantasies about wanting to get back to fashion photography. Not if you paid me, which even then, wasn't always assured.
I used to look forward to having that magazine delivered, back in the 70s. Time changes everything; everything and everyone loses their way.
Rob
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Oops! Posted wrong snap!
Sorry.