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 … underneath it, with only the slim legs of the squashed woman remaining visible. Alongside a critical commentary on American eating habits, also at play here is a reference to radical chic, developed in fashion photography by Helmut Newton and Guy Bordin in the sixties, when LaChapelle was born. With his garish images, David LaChapelle holds a mirror up to a hedonistic, lust-oriented and affluent society. They are contemporary, ironic and sometim…  …enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment … HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)  …. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really…  …ricula of American colleges and universities would have been very difficult without some intellectually respectable history text, which Newhall supplied. Peter Pollack in 1958 followed Newhall’s basic story line, as did Helmut and Alison Gersheim in 1969, and Naomi Rosenblum (and others) later, in spite of the structural problems that should have been long since obvious even to very comfortable minds. John Szarkowski, New York City Most pho… INTERVIEW: “Eyes Wide Open: Interview with John Szarkowski” (2006)  …. I like portraits that tell me something about the person being photographed, not how clever the photographer is because he got someone to jump in the air or stand on his head. Do you want to know whose work I really admire? Helmut Newton. He portraits shake people up. The other day I picked up his little book of black and white portraits (Helmut Newton: Portretten/Portraits), and I thought, “These pictures take risks!” They tell you… INTERVIEW: “Street Shooter – An Interview with Mary Ellen Mark” (1987) | ||||||||||||||
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