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What's good about these pictures? If you released them on Instagram on an anonymous account, nobody would give a shit.
There's nothing good about them. They have celebrities and are ostensibly about "fashion", but they don't otherwise have anything to recommend them.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras: https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
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It's hard to say. But I've been a fan of Juregen Teller for a while. He wants to break all the "rules" of fashion photography and photography in general. You're right, if you post these anonymously to IG, no one would bat an eye. But it's published in a prominent fashion magazine, it's taken by the famous Juregen Teller, it features celebrities posing in an unflattering way, they're wearing the latest designer clothe…
I didn't find the photos necessarily bad or easy to replicate at all. Taking pictures of people is intimate and challenging thing to do, especially if you don't know them well. I'm also not one to critique photos from a technical perspective, and tend to go by feel in my own and others photos.
When I was more serious into photography back in the day, getting a photo that can express what I wanted it to feel or the story I wanted to convey was much harder.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras: https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
Well, I took a look, they are just bad photos to me. I could not find any redeeming quality.
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I took a self-portrait of... It's people not thinking through what they are saying and rather relying on stock phrases to relay information.
Maybe, but it’s way more likely that they mean “I took a picture of something with myself in the frame.” A selfie can really be any picture where you’re holding the camera and in the frame. The subject of the photo can be something other than you. “I took a selfie with…” means that I and the other thing are the subjects. “I took a selfie of…” means that the other thing is the subject I’m just in the picture.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras: https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
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Funny, without context (that I am unwilling to pursue atm, just skipped the whole article for the photos) they just look terrible pictures. Period.
Adding context does little to change that, unfortunately. I could understand if they evoked some kind of emotions or served as a deconstruction of photography technique, but most of them just look like deliberately bad photographs to me. Then again, I'm only an amateur at photography.
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Funny, without context (that I am unwilling to pursue atm, just skipped the whole article for the photos) they just look terrible pictures. Period.
It looks to me like the pictures may have been for his... uhh... own self-gratification.
"Tichy was frequently arrested for hanging around the local pool and snapping pictures of unsuspecting women."
https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/miroslav-tich
Though he seems to have made quite a lot of effort in the handmade cameras and deliberate processing techniques.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras: https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
Well, I took a look, they are just bad photos to me. I could not find any redeeming quality.
I mean... I don't know if I'd take perfect pictures with such equipment, especially not if I'm trying to do it secretly.
But bromine, iodine, chlorine, and silver could not fix an even greater failing of early photographs, their impermanence Good pun.