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What's the deal with the bad portraits?

Published by: SportsShooter.com       06-12-2007        Read Complete Article
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" "Mediocre," said Henri Cartier-Bresson, about a set of portraits David Douglas Duncan had taken of him. "It's just what comes out of a camera when a camera works."

Like Henri I have often wondered what's the deal with the bad portraits. It is the one photographic situation where we are in total control. We control which lens we use, where the subject stands, whether or not we are going to use lights, how many and where we put them. We control where we stand and when we press the button. ..."

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