http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/06/tasteful-photography/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/06/tasteful-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-2453 Lisa Bramen Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:13:00 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=5862#comment-2453 Leonard, thank you for the observation. Virginia Heckert was referring generally to the Modernist section of the exhibition when she spoke of photographers being freed by the use of handheld cameras, not specifically about the Weston photograph. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Leonard, thank you for the observation. Virginia Heckert was referring generally to the Modernist section of the exhibition when she spoke of photographers being freed by the use of handheld cameras, not specifically about the Weston photograph. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/06/tasteful-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-2435 Leonard Horn Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:26:14 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=5862#comment-2435 This article doesn't make it clear whether Virginia Heckert or Lisa Bramen is implying that Edward Weston's "Bananas" (1930) and Edward Quigley's "Peas in a Pod (1935) were made when "...photography moved away from large format to handheld cameras...artists were suddenly freed to point their lenses up, down or tilted at an angle." The only time Edward Weston ever handheld his camera was to put in on or take it off the tripod. "Bananas" is a life size contact print requiring the smallest aperture for the necessary depth of field and a very long exposure, ruling out handholding. This article doesn’t make it clear whether Virginia Heckert or Lisa Bramen is implying that Edward Weston’s “Bananas” (1930) and Edward Quigley’s “Peas in a Pod (1935) were made when “…photography moved away from large format to handheld cameras…artists were suddenly freed to point their lenses up, down or tilted at an angle.” The only time Edward Weston ever handheld his camera was to put in on or take it off the tripod. “Bananas” is a life size contact print requiring the smallest aperture for the necessary depth of field and a very long exposure, ruling out handholding.

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