MON
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My issue here is not whether Hugo took inspiration from Meisel or not. We've reached the point in time where creativity is at its maximum limit. Originality is no longer the general rule, but the exception.
Everyone takes influence from everyone. How many angles, color styles, filters, themes +++ are there? Its 2019 and magazines/fashion photographers have been around since what 1900s? Of course themes would be reused. Styles reused. Even at the height of Avedon's career, hardly can one consider him as the pioneer of his style, and an original.
My issue is the execution. If you want to be inspired/imitate (whatever you wanna call it) another photographer or another's work, might as well PRODUCE A BETTER output. This is lazy work. To be inspired is one thing, to be half-***ed about is another. This work is of no exception.
The quality is not the best. The styling is amateur. The props used look cheap (that dagger?? Sis.) The subjects were intentionally zoomed in to hide the fact that they were merely pasted on a fake background.
As much as I hate giving power to photographers (lets leave that under Franca days), maybe its what Vogue Italia needs right now. Clearly Farneti has no direction. Maybe that can be supplied by a mainstay photographer? Multi photographers work if you know the identity of your magazine (US, UK, Paris, Japan), but not when the editor is lost (as in this case). An editor who has no direction coupled with various photographers almost always result to a confusing magazine
Everyone takes influence from everyone. How many angles, color styles, filters, themes +++ are there? Its 2019 and magazines/fashion photographers have been around since what 1900s? Of course themes would be reused. Styles reused. Even at the height of Avedon's career, hardly can one consider him as the pioneer of his style, and an original.
My issue is the execution. If you want to be inspired/imitate (whatever you wanna call it) another photographer or another's work, might as well PRODUCE A BETTER output. This is lazy work. To be inspired is one thing, to be half-***ed about is another. This work is of no exception.
The quality is not the best. The styling is amateur. The props used look cheap (that dagger?? Sis.) The subjects were intentionally zoomed in to hide the fact that they were merely pasted on a fake background.
As much as I hate giving power to photographers (lets leave that under Franca days), maybe its what Vogue Italia needs right now. Clearly Farneti has no direction. Maybe that can be supplied by a mainstay photographer? Multi photographers work if you know the identity of your magazine (US, UK, Paris, Japan), but not when the editor is lost (as in this case). An editor who has no direction coupled with various photographers almost always result to a confusing magazine
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