tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post1464455830356323711..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Roy Stryker, the FSA/OWI Photos, and the Hole Punchamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-29746819717981022632017-09-09T13:33:49.111-07:002017-09-09T13:33:49.111-07:00Remembering something from perhaps forty years ago...Remembering something from perhaps forty years ago, I was leafing through a book of Bert Stern's photographs of Marylin Monroe. In the text it mentioned that their agreement for photo sessions gave her veto power over any pictures she didn't like, and that she exercised her veto with gleeful use of a hole punch on the negs/chromes. My reaction was a bit of shock—the sanctity of the negative was certainly a thing at the time. Then my second reaction was, "why not?" The purpose of the work was propaganda for a celebrity, not documentation of reality. The confluence of celebrity portraiture and journalism/documentary is pretty slight.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.com