I understand what you mean. It's a high contrast technique that was fashionable a number of years ago. I think it's a bit of a gimmick myself. Still, the photographs are good.
What a shame to have missed Nachtwey, it would have been a fascinating talk to go to. Are you not on some sort of mailing list for events of that type? I am part of the 'Visual Journalism' group of the RPS and am informed about most things like that in London. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > Sent: 25 June 2006 15:45 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: Men Like Me > > The men. The images show a high contrast look that's not at > all natural > looking to my eye. It works on some photos, can even enhance and > strengthen them, but the technique as used in this book, from > what I could > see in the teaser, comes across as heavy handed and overdone. > People don't > glow and shine quite so much in reality. > > As a PS, I just found out that James Nachtwey was at Berkeley > in early May. > I never heard or saw a word about it, and am distressed that I missed > seeing him and hearing him talk. It was, it seems, a night > very much like > the one's with Salgado. > > http://tinyurl.com/ebgmz > > Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
