Posted on 08/19/2022 4:33:55 PM PDT by C19fan
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz has found herself in a racism row with critics of her dimly lit Vogue portrait of Ketanji Brown Jackson claiming it demonstrates her repeated failure to light black stars 'properly'. Leibovitz proudly shared her two photos of the Supreme Court justice on Twitter this week after they were published on Vogue's website.
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They do and they don’t; meaning, from what I have seen, the average black woman wants to “misappropriate” i.e. take - styles from other cultures, but they will resent being called on it.
I think the picture of her is perfect.
She isn’t looking at Lincoln, or actually anything of importance. She’s hiding from Lincoln. Its a great metaphor image for her.
That whole story was obviously fake when it came out. There is no way that the Secret Service is going to let some unknown, unvetted person get within arms reach of the First Lady. That just doesn't happen.
“We had to learn in high school that you had to light certain folks differently “
I think some of the newer phones actually do this.
I thought it was a good, natural light setting that included backdrop sunset. She looked fine to me.
The two pictures I saw were awful.
I think that flash should be used to light the subject better while still getting in the sunrise colors.
If you know a magazine editor would object, then redo.
An amateur with a $500 DSLR should get satisfactory results nowadays.
Did the Vogue editor reject the shots?
The subject: KBJ - is poorly lit, and the lighting wouldn’t have worked even for Edgar Winters.
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Seems like any old iPhone would have taken a better photo. I think sometimes these professional photographers go for something extra artsy or moody and it just comes off as forced.
yep
“We had to learn in high school that you had to light certain folks differently...”
Some of the people in my 1970s yearbooks were just teeth and eyeballs.
I always found her cute.
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If the photographer had given her light skin there would have been an outcry over that. Point is, you are always wrong.
Ms. Leibovitz did some great work back in the 70s with Rolling Stone. I kept a 1977 10th anniversary issue of RS for many years, used to go back through it just to look at her photos.
And I’ll just add this. Linda Ronstadt, red lingerie, Rolling Stone.
Truth, but the FR social justice warriors will not be pleased with you.
“show a lack of competence”
Would a posed photo be chosen that the subject or those that paid the bill didn’t like?
Kentanji won’t be known as the black female justice, she will be know as the f@ing stupid justice after her bovine idiocy being unable to define what a woman is.
Back in the day I spent a few years as a Broadcast Engineer at several TV stations in the South. At one we had a very black (can I say ‘coal-black’) preacher who did a live Sunday night church service. And he was prone to wearing bright all-white suits.
There was just no way to light him correctly. If you lit him where you could see his facial features, his suit was just a glowing white blob. And if you toned things down where you could see his suit, then his face was a black blob with only his white eyes showing.
And trying to split the difference, he was all just an indiscernible blob. Only after he heard from some of his congregants did he change his wardrobe.
Sometimes there’s just no way to do it right.
What - they want her to look lighter? Maybe brown-paper-bag light?
YES! Yes, brilliant! Spot on! She is refusing to see Lincoln, she is denying Lincoln! Just like she denies what a woman is “I’m not a biologist”
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