Review: Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Posted on January 19, 2009
Most travel photographers work casually, keeping an eye out for the serendipitous or waiting for a mashup of subject, action and light in one magic “aha!” moment. Unlike Disney, I have never chased lemmings over a cliff or like Geographic, lit a cave with a thousand flashbulbs. My highest level of management is usually simply waiting for something to happen: for the light to change color and move across a landscape, or two tots on a teeter totter to teeter just right (the fat kid on top and the skinny on the bottom). Sometimes I anticipate a moment and prepare for it, rushing in front of an oxcart so it will line up perfectly with a temple when it passes by.
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through March 1 illustrates a different kind of art: photography as theatre.
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