(posted 8570 days ago)To me, the Hedges shots are examples of what is pedestrian vs. what is, as Spirer said, "transcendent." Picture 1 is a geekly looking guy to old for his costume playing a guitar. Picture 2 is a soul in flight. (By the way this blur works so well because there is SOMETHING in focus...)
I've found that shots of musicians are sort of slaves to expectations... The subject seems to demand a narrow, rebels-in-action approach- At a portfolio review I had a very knowledgeable, hip photo editor tell me about a collection of my portraits: "I don't know- they don't seem to be about the music..." They were kind of dark and somber and formal- I think I was trying to present these artists as the serious poets I knew them to be- But they weren't musician shots as he expected them....
So lets see some musician or concert pictures that work, but would NOT be candidates for the Sunday Arts Section...
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