From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 02/15/01-09:06:02 AM Z
Lukas wrote:
>Oh yes, regarding Ed Freeman's page: certainly very skillfully made
>pictures, but mostly too much "licked" and polished for my taste; just what
>I deplore of much of the digital work. Much of the colour work looked to me
>like those posters sold at Rock concerts in the 70ties, motives which also
>featured on record covers of the time.
>
>Lukas
When I first saw Freeman's photographs it crossed my mind that the only
difference between his work and that of some of the pictorialists was the
slicker look it had because of Photoshop. The concepts, in terms of
allegorical reading, melodramatic presentation and admixture of religious
symbols is all there as it was with a number of pictorialists, particulary
some of the late Spanish pictorialis. I would include Ortiz Echagüe in this
group, along with others including Pla Janini, Eduardo Susanna, Jose
Tinoco, and Miguel Goicoechea. Unlike almost everywhere else pictorialism
continued as the predominant photographic aesthetic in Spain until the
early 1950s.
Sandy King
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