Posted on 04/18/2005 9:09:12 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
"Why can't they just photograph conservatives straight?!" blasted this week's TIME magazine covergirl Ann Coulter.
The bestselling author and controversialist slammed magazine editors for fronting a photo of her, she claims, which is so distorted "my own mother would not even recognize me!"
The photographer, Platon, appears to have used a wide "Fisheye" lense for the cover snap, stretching Coulter's legs and feet -- while shrinking the rest of her body.
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1169.asp
The photographer behind Esquire's famous Clinton "crotch shot" on shooting celebrities, the powerful, and fashion spreads filled with real people.
By Chris Gage – February 10, 2004
These days, when bolder, brasher headlines spill across magazine covers in a split-second strugglbe to capture our Schadenfreude-tinted fancy, it's rare that a picture catches the public's eye the way the low-angled "crotch shot" of Bill Clinton did back in December 2000, when it appeared on the cover of Esquire. The photographer behind that notorious shot—the British-born and mono-monikered Platon—was granted only a few minutes with the then-president, in which he covered his assignment bases and then boldly asked: "Mr. President, can you show me the love?" The photograph was immediately dissected and discussed by Larry King, Bob Woodward, and a host of other media pundits and scribes. The reaction the photo received, Platon says, "said more about the media than it did about me and Clinton. It was a contemporary portrait of a contemporary president. I wasn't going to photograph him as a stuffy old guy who doesn't relate to the young people."
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Fair and Balanced, Time Magazine is not...
My Soviet Union born wife just loves shoes like that.
I remember when Jesse Helms was on Time and they somehow made him look like a concentration camp guard.
Even though it is a bad pic of Ann, she still looks good.
As a photographer, I like the shot a lot.
As long as they spell her name right... :)
I agree, it is rediculous. She looks kinda like Tom Petty.
Note to self: Read article and THEN comment
that was my first thought thanks for finding that picture
Who really cares? You are on the cover of one of the biggest magazines in the world. This will make her sound like a big cry-baby, IMO.
The picture is just fine IMHO.
"Oh Wah...wah...wah...b****...b****...b****"
Really sweetheart, Don't sit for an interview and pose for a shot with some rag for self-promotion and then pull the same ol' aw shucks--
'Them clever liberals fooled me'
I mean really people, a little personal responsibility
I think its a cool photo, and makes Ann look dangerous and powerful.
if they were trying to make her look silly, they missed... i think she looks great... and her shoes are very pretty... stylish... but are those white hosiery or her bare legs? or is she wearing skin-colored hosiery? it's hard to tell... (i would say that white hosiery is somewhat of a no-no.) butr even so, she still looks great!
They distorted the photo plus the very first words they use are "Fair and balanced she isn`t" as if to suggest she is a radical.
Consider the source [TIME]. RichardHead publication is as RichardHead publication does.
Maybe they were trying to show us how [they imagine] she looks to wild eyed leftist wackos. Of course, if that were the case, they would have added dipping fangs........
Although the photo does not do her justice, still it is not a bad photo, far better than that of Clinton and that of Gore and those ridiculous one of John Kerry. She looks feisty.
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