Brilliant.
http://www.vivianmaier.com/portfolios/new-york-2/?show=thumbnailsLet the pics speak for themselves... (unless you want to get into the cool background story, which is on the site too).
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Sunday 5 February 2012
Awesome triptych portraits
Such a cool idea, and brilliantly executed. To me these work because each shot is good in itself - composition, DOF, focus - put together the proportion and framing is balanced, and the final images are interesting, and slightly funny and grotesque too. The slightly abstract nature better represents how you take in a stranger's appearance, impressions of details, rather than steady stare a full length portrait implies. The uniformity across the series works well, it would be great to see these in a gallery display.
They're similar to these in a way http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomokev/sets/72157622560274463/ - the colour in these ones really stands out, my favourite is the guy with bike on the beach. Both give a cubist feel which puts me in the mind of Hockney's joiners.
There's loads more good stuff in both photostream too.
I love flickr, but it really does distract me from what I'm meant to be doing.
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