I had intended writing about aspirational advertising today (no really) but when looking for an external hard drive online I came across this photograph of Elizabeth Taylor from the Life magazine archives - published in their book 'Life in Hollywood'. The model looks beautiful, she is lit perfectly, for the era it was taken in, but just look at the state of that background! If I had been lucky enough to have taken that shot I would have spent hours using Photoshop trying to smooth out those blotches on the roll of paper.
Yes, that background would be heavily criticised if the picture had appeared on somewhere like the Talk Photography forum. I suppose it's a case of priorities changing over time.
ReplyDeleteAs you say, the lighting is great.
Yes - the photographer would get slaughtered for that background.
ReplyDeleteShe was quite stunning though wasn't she.
Yes, she was.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed. On the background, isn't it one of those mottled screens that many photographers use i.e. for individual school photos, portraits? Hard to believe they'd use what looks like an olive drag canvas tarp as a background otherwise!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure Span - the more I look at it the more I can see creases which is in part due to the lighting as much as the material.
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