I thought you all might find this quite interesting and I'm curious as to what your thoughts are on it:
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  • J D
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    Re: The Decline of Fashion Photography

    Sat, April 17, 2004 - 12:56 PM
    Very interesting.

    My though is that art and commerce are the same in that they are both trying to create some feeling. In the case of commercial work - you want to move people to associate wanting to buy a product with your photograph.

    As a photographer and a business person I don't get a lot of what I see in fashion photography these days. Even 10 years ago I like a lot more of the photography I saw in fashion magazines.
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      Re: The Decline of Fashion Photography

      Sun, April 18, 2004 - 6:34 AM
      Do you ever find yourself losing your artisticness in terms of fashion work? For me it starts to go slowly - I don't even notice it til I look at my work and go "oh my god this is so f-ing bland!". Then I have to do a few "artistic, just for me" sets to get it back. It's hard to keep the creative juices flowing with fashion sometimes. When I *can* have reign over how much creativity is used it's hard to find a balance.
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      • J D
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        Re: The Decline of Fashion Photography

        Mon, April 19, 2004 - 5:56 AM
        I do a lot of model portfolios for commercial / editorial models. They actually need most of their shots to be bland because they need to reflect the work they're going for.

        However - I am doing my own work, and I try to inject "art" into my portraiture.

        I just did a shoot for my own book with a model in black PVC holding a machine gun. Nothing bland.
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        • callef
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          Re: The Decline of Fashion Photography

          Tue, February 7, 2006 - 8:08 AM
          hi
          my names callef and im looking for a photographer willing to do some test shoots with me I just got back from orlando where i was working with a modeling agency for two years but they did not help me enough with my career. Now im in boston and my new agency said i need new pictures im hoping i can find a photographer to do some test shoots because its the only way i can get new pictures.

          im 6 ft tall,slender, im hispanic, brown skin, curly black hair 18 years old
          if intrested call 978-685-1587 or email me at model1040@yahoo.com
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