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04/09/2009 08:26:53 AM |
That is certainly more chat than I usually generate. Here is some return chatter.
I wish I could say that the bar code had agenda (man, I wish I could say that!). She was actually drinking from the bottle (which was filled with coffee) and it got turned around. The other side is embossed with the words "Root Beer." We keep the bottle around because my son likes to drink his milk from it. And why the hell not say I.
What felt authentic to me were (a) the light and (b) her lack of a model-like expression. It appears to me that she is listening. I can see thoughts processing. It is an explanation to which she will not have to respond for some time.
Every item in this photo, except for the model and the phone, is a regular attendee. My home was built in the 50s and my kitchen has a very early 50s vibe. We have framed pages from the 50s edition of that Better Homes Cookbook. You know those photos of gelatin with fruit bobbing around inside and everybody wearing Leave-it-to-Beaver smiles.
I had much much better crops... but the lighting was more "correct" and therefore less interesting.
That Tupperware did exist in the 50's.
A missed criticism: That dress is falling off of her. It looks ridiculous in this particular shot, though perfectly fine in others. The dress belongs to my wife, has an open back, and didn't always fall well on the model.
Message edited by author 2009-04-09 10:45:21. |
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04/08/2009 07:56:15 PM |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
That bar code cracks me up, first thing I noticed :-) That and the non-period tupperware... |
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04/08/2009 07:55:28 PM |
| That bar code cracks me up, first thing I noticed :-) |
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04/08/2009 05:35:56 PM |
| btw, this is a photo of a barcode, right? a hidden suggestion that bar charts of scores do not belong on photographs, since there were no barcodes in the 50s, right? |
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04/08/2009 05:34:11 PM |
| It was Richard Yates, and damn that book was depressing. |
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04/08/2009 12:07:42 PM |
| Wonderful setup. What brings it home are the colors - great work. |
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04/08/2009 09:18:47 AM |
| This was one of my favorites, sometimes I'm thankful just to see something different! I love all the period elements, but they don't seem crammed in or overdone. Beautiful model, too. A small anachronism: the barcode on the bottle. Nice work. |
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04/08/2009 06:29:38 AM |
| This is an extraordinarily well done period piece that was vastly underrated. VERY nice! |
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04/07/2009 11:01:50 PM |
I hardly ever like staged photographs which is why I am so much taken with this one ... it first had to overcome my prejudices, and it did! I like it so much because it is such a wonderful little story. I think it's about rebellion. All the small icons of her time and her place are there; the baking stuff, the appliances, the phone, the pop, the dress, her grooming and of course the apron. She is the perfect vision of an idealized life. And yet, there is a tiny hint of something else; some simmering insurrection. There's a tiny wicked smile at her lips, and there's the slightly racy stockings. I wonder who she's calling. Probably not Dexter (or whatever hubby's name is). So I like it for all that and for its echoes of Frank Yates's Revolutionary Road. 10, and the Order of the Thumb:
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04/07/2009 08:45:28 AM |
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04/05/2009 08:10:40 PM |
| What a nice blast from the past. I'm now sitting in my mom's kitchen as a little boy and she is baking me some cupcakes. |
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04/04/2009 02:57:50 AM |
| Maybe: "A phone call from the fifties"? (except for the barcode on the bottle) (not voting) |
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04/03/2009 11:52:09 PM |
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04/02/2009 11:37:54 PM |
| Nice job recreating an era that is long gone. |
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04/01/2009 11:49:14 PM |
| I like the feel of the 50's. Good shot |
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04/01/2009 08:01:43 PM |
Mom?
Absoutely love the retro feel to this image - I can't find a thing I would complain, comment or even dare to suggest to change. |
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04/01/2009 07:03:02 PM |
| excellent set up...what was this originally take for? really really good |
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04/01/2009 01:39:39 PM |
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04/01/2009 10:35:11 AM |
| i think desaturated would be so much stronger |
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04/01/2009 09:27:20 AM |
| Cute idea but a bit too busy for my taste. :~) |
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04/01/2009 07:13:40 AM |
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04/01/2009 03:23:21 AM |
| she need to get off the phone and get back to work! |
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