[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex photo among the best- 2010
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:49:44 -0300
I always wrote (and F&H too) that the square format was made to be
cropped if necessary, sometimes your composition is right for the
square -BTW nice picture format- and sometimes not. I have seen
several Sidibé (from Mali) square photographs, others close to square
and other with rectangular cropping, all taken with his Rolleiflex and
I could write similar from other Rollei TLR photographers.
Carlos
2010/3/1 Marvin <marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I have admired Sidibe photographs for some. I was unaware that he used a
> Rollei since the framing is most often not square. His work is a living
> documentary of Senegal!
>
> Is it not satisfying to hear of his frugality? Consider the worth of the
> photographic resources in most of Africa?
>
> Marvin.
>
>
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex photo among the best- 2010
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>
>
> Relative to a previous thread, note his comment about the virtues of
> restraint and economy when shooting film...
>
>
> Eric Goldstein
>
> --
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> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:26 AM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> His Rolleiflex photo won the first prize for "arts and entertainment
> singles" in this year’s World Press Photo Contest
>
> "Malick Sidibé
> Mr. Sidibé, now in his mid-70s, is a well established figure in Mali
> and renowned worldwide. Andreas Kokkino, the fashion editor who
> conceived and styled the spread, has said about working with Mr.
> Sidibé: “Instead of the usual hundreds and hundreds of frames per shot
> that I had become accustomed to in this era of digital photography,
> Sidibé took only two or three frames for every shot. When the shoot
> was over, he had only shot 22 frames on his Rolleiflex!
> And one of them was judged to be among the best in the world." :
>
> The photograph is the number 14in the NYT blog, it and the others are
> better seen full screen:
> http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/showcase-122/?scp=2&sq=rolleiflex&st=cse
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/yg8t2ky
>
> "He who does not set foot in the laboratory is not a photographer"
> stated Malick Sidibé last year when received a significant prize in
> Spain.
>
> Carlos
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