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not to knock on the tweet which is a pretty funny joke, but just a sidenote for people who might not realize: the subjects of photography seldom get much say in which pictures of them get chosen. there was a great blogpost about this once, idk if I can find... https://twitter.com/jeffbercovici/status/1338628751790284800
there was someone who got the same set of models, and then got different photographers to photograph them, and gave them different briefs – sometimes they would say "this guy is a successful CEO" and sometimes they would say "this guy is a recovered drug addict"...
oh I found it
let's thread the pics
https://petapixel.com/2015/11/04/6-photographers-asked-to-shoot-portraits-of-1-man-with-a-twist/
let's thread the pics
https://petapixel.com/2015/11/04/6-photographers-asked-to-shoot-portraits-of-1-man-with-a-twist/
fisherman
recovering alcoholic
self-made millionaire
ex-convict
person who saved someone's life
self-proclaimed psychic
this is what media studies is really about. everything you have seen has been framed a certain way, and almost always deliberately so, to evoke a specific intent or message. don't mistake the shots for the reality https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1095848928195407872
used to do a lot of tweets about frames and framing, here are some https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1026294894627762177
learning to see this is one of the most powerful things imaginable. it leads to to a meta understanding of everything, of learning and seeing and power and imagination and thing-ness https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1145581243007827968
fun exercise: revisit the pics above and then think about the story you tell yourself about yourself.
what’s your own bio/description in your head? how are you framing your own shots of yourself in your mind? https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1044535520519319552
what’s your own bio/description in your head? how are you framing your own shots of yourself in your mind? https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1044535520519319552
just for fun here are a couple of sets of elon photos
first, the classic arm cross pose that photographers insist on, and that journalists/editors love to use because it's such a trope
I'll even throw in one of him facing the left, so subversive and contrarian
first, the classic arm cross pose that photographers insist on, and that journalists/editors love to use because it's such a trope
I'll even throw in one of him facing the left, so subversive and contrarian
contrast with, say-
i'm not saying you *should* think of elon one way or another, these shots are also taken and selected for some particular reason or another
just consider the effect of frames and framing
just consider the effect of frames and framing
oh yeah great point
2015, 2019
presumably they save unglamorous and/or unhinged shots of you for future use
https://twitter.com/mdaviswilson/status/1339469516607143939
2015, 2019
presumably they save unglamorous and/or unhinged shots of you for future use
https://twitter.com/mdaviswilson/status/1339469516607143939
*2014 earlier
this is 2015, lol
best not to take these things at face value, eh
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1010459628189073408
this is 2015, lol
best not to take these things at face value, eh
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1010459628189073408
(btw what is it with war criminals and describing women as "ethereal")
