» portrait http://www.photojoe.com/blog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:53:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Great Quote http://www.photojoe.com/blog/2009/08/05/great-quote/ http://www.photojoe.com/blog/2009/08/05/great-quote/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:06:00 +0000 PhotoJoe http://www.photojoe.com/blog/?p=1036 I went to see the Joyce Tenneson Polaroid collection at the Portland Museum of Art recently and was introduced to the artistic portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron. After being blown away by both women, I stumbled upon this quote on the wall regarding Cameron.

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Reportedly, [Alfred] Tennyson warned [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow about the rigors of a portrait sitting with Cameron: "You will have to do whatever she tells you. I shall return soon and see what is left of you."

Apparently, photography wasn’t the carefree, spontaneous affair that it is today!

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Just the other day, I had to honor of photographing the family of a fellow photographer, Julian Kornacki. We met up at Oakbourne Mansion in West Chester PA. Julian gave me full creative control and we had a blast!

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Meanwhile, back to the hyper-edgy John Michael Cooper. John started a web project called Roadside Families. He seeded the project by taking photos of photographers that he knew and their families in his own style and then sent them off to "pay it forward" and do the same for other photographers. I paid mine forward before I actually got my own family photographed but I hope to remedy that soon and join the project.

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This was one of the reasons I took so much time and effort to redesign my studio. It’s now a "location!"

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But I have a tendency to play after a while!

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