Comments on: Farmer Portraits: Jacques Laboile (Bon Femme) http://hecooksshecooks.net/2009/05/farmer-portraits-jacques-laboile-bon-femme/ cooking without fear Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Michael (He Cooks She Cooks) http://hecooksshecooks.net/2009/05/farmer-portraits-jacques-laboile-bon-femme/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Michael (He Cooks She Cooks) Thu, 07 May 2009 20:19:44 +0000 http://hecooksshecooks.net/?p=1227#comment-609 Jeff- The backdrop allows me to separate the farmer from a distracting background, such a tree line, great big clouds, or buffalo. By framing around them, you notice the farmer, but because there's more to the picture than that, your eye should lead you around the frame, to look closer at what else is there. Take a look at the Legacy Beef shot. One cow is looking at us, the others are eating, and still more are in the way background, acres away, dotted on the hill. I realize that separating the farmer from the land also has connotations, but I do not believe any shots so far look so disconnected. As you guessed it also serves as unifying prop. It adds more consistency among the different people. Chief inspiration for such a project? Look at work by<a href="//www.jamesbalog.com/portfolio/index.html" rel="nofollow"> James Balog</a> and certainly <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&um=1&sa=1&q=portraits+In+the+american+west+avedon&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq=" rel="nofollow">Richard Avdedon's "In the American West". </a> Hope that helped. I've been recording audio along the way. I'll print them out 11x17 to turn in for class, but I hope to one day show these prints at a gallery with museum style audio and as you walk past an image you hear the subjects voice for a minute or so. Thats my dream. The internet works for now. Jeff-
The backdrop allows me to separate the farmer from a distracting background, such a tree line, great big clouds, or buffalo. By framing around them, you notice the farmer, but because there’s more to the picture than that, your eye should lead you around the frame, to look closer at what else is there. Take a look at the Legacy Beef shot. One cow is looking at us, the others are eating, and still more are in the way background, acres away, dotted on the hill.

I realize that separating the farmer from the land also has connotations, but I do not believe any shots so far look so disconnected.

As you guessed it also serves as unifying prop. It adds more consistency among the different people.

Chief inspiration for such a project? Look at work by James Balog and certainly Richard Avdedon’s “In the American West”.

Hope that helped. I’ve been recording audio along the way. I’ll print them out 11×17 to turn in for class, but I hope to one day show these prints at a gallery with museum style audio and as you walk past an image you hear the subjects voice for a minute or so. Thats my dream. The internet works for now.

]]> By: Jeff G. http://hecooksshecooks.net/2009/05/farmer-portraits-jacques-laboile-bon-femme/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Jeff G. Thu, 07 May 2009 19:55:07 +0000 http://hecooksshecooks.net/?p=1227#comment-608 Michael, The portraits are great and I understand what a white background will do for you in a shot, but don't you sort of lose the farm background by propping that sheet up? Or is this some sort of unifying prop? Just curious... Michael,

The portraits are great and I understand what a white background will do for you in a shot, but don’t you sort of lose the farm background by propping that sheet up? Or is this some sort of unifying prop? Just curious…

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