Comments on: Abusing the medium http://willbenton.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=fv+&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.willbenton.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fabusing-the-medium%2F&seed_title=Abusing+the+medium a weblog by Will Benton Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:20:02 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Will Benton http://willbenton.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=fv+&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.willbenton.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fabusing-the-medium%2F&seed_title=Abusing+the+medium/comment-page-1/#comment-515336 Will Benton Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:25:56 +0000 http://blog.willbenton.com/?p=1636#comment-515336 Ha ha! I thought of the same article, and would have worked it in (e.g. "the presently-destitute Ms. Leibovitz") except it felt like piling on. The bizarre thing is that she used to make amazing portraits. Maybe this look, which I've seen compared to "auto-tune for photography" is just what clients ask for, but it seems unlikely that Leibovitz gets that many assignments with such tight parameters. Ha ha! I thought of the same article, and would have worked it in (e.g. “the presently-destitute Ms. Leibovitz”) except it felt like piling on.

The bizarre thing is that she used to make amazing portraits. Maybe this look, which I’ve seen compared to “auto-tune for photography” is just what clients ask for, but it seems unlikely that Leibovitz gets that many assignments with such tight parameters.

]]> By: t http://willbenton.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=fv+&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.willbenton.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fabusing-the-medium%2F&seed_title=Abusing+the+medium/comment-page-1/#comment-515332 t Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:24:19 +0000 http://blog.willbenton.com/?p=1636#comment-515332 I was also surprised by how bad that particular Vanity Fair photo is (I hadn't seen the Lavazza photo - !), but then it made me think of this article I'd read: http://nymag.com/fashion/09/fall/58346/ Maybe that chronic debt is getting to her. I was also surprised by how bad that particular Vanity Fair photo is (I hadn’t seen the Lavazza photo – !), but then it made me think of this article I’d read:
http://nymag.com/fashion/09/fall/58346/
Maybe that chronic debt is getting to her.

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