Quintessence Magazine

What is behind the lense?

 It was interesting taking this pictre because you can see the intrest on the girls face of what ever she is photographing.  It makes the audience wonder, what is behind her lense…what is she taking a picture of?

It is what it is

his photo really speaks for itself. The clarity of the image is impeccable. The expression on this young man’s face is one of disgust or discontent. The hat that he is wearing adds to the emotion of the photo…makes you ponder to yourself; what is causing this facial expression?

Concentration

 The lighting in this picture is amazing…from his blue du-rag to his blue ring, the clarity really stands out; once again relating to Models photography style, taking the ordinary and shifing angels and waiting for the perfect exposure of light. The message…concentrate.

Sheer joy

The look on this girls face tells the whole story. This is laughter in one of its purest forms. You can see through her whole body that she is laughing. This kind of joy is a rare moment in life.

The Image in the Mirror

This photo is amazing. It’s unusual angel and perfect lighting are one of the higlights of Models type of photography. The main focus in this photo is the intensity behind the boys eyes as if daring his reflection to come out at him.

Lisette Model Type Photography

Lisette Model was born into a wealthy Viennese family. Her father was Italian-Austrian and her mother French. As a young woman Lisette Model aspired to become a singer and pianist, and studied with the composer Arnold Schönberg. Although her dreams of a career in music were never realized, she acquired from Schönberg an unwavering sense of dedication to art that would ultimately find expression in her work as a photographer.

Following her younger sister’s lead, Lisette took her first photographs in France around 1933. The French photographer Rogi Andre gave Lisette her initial lessons in photography, as well as some advice which marked all her future work: “Never photograph anything you are not passionately interested in.”

Model had a passionate relationship with her camera and her subjects. Edward Steichen, one-time director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, considered her to be one of the foremost photographers of our time. Known for her stark, biting portraits of people on the street, Model was capable of displaying a softer side through her work, as seen in her series’ “Running Legs” and “Reflections.”

Model had the ability to approach her subjects with a candor that many photographers never achieve. Model’s attraction to the “common man,” could be seen in her early pictures on the Promenade des Anglais and later in her pictures capturing the inhabitants of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Through these people she sought out life’s extremes, exposing humanity in its baser forms yet touching on its heightened sensibilities. She was brilliant in her use of shadows, angles, grains, and other means available to expose the complexities of her subjects. Model was also willing to try new techniques. She experimented with cropped negatives, an approach many photographers would not think of taking, preferring to leave their negatives intact. By cropping her negatives, Model was able to manipulate the image in order to tell a story from her perspective, even if the original picture showed something different.

To learn more about his photographer you can visit these sites:

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/lisettemodel.htm

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=22706&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale

http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/showcases/model/index_e.jsp