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| Coney Island Bather |
The first picture I saw taken by Lisette Model was of a voluptous bather on Coney Island, New York. It was taken around 1939 and it just appeals to me - I either love a photograph or like them and I love this. This photograph said to me "I'm big and i'm enjoying myself". I did remove this text from the post as I doubted myself but on reading about this phograph the woman indeed did challenge onlookers saying "Have you never seen a fat person before". The feet of the bather are sinking into the sand which the sea is lapping over. The light is good as you can see reflections of the bather in the sand and also the bather's eyes are scrunched up giving me the impression that the sun is on her. Model's photographs of people show them as they are - they don't appear posed, they're ordinary people like the Circus Man, the Man with Phamplets. I have copied my photographs from the website shown below.
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_work_e.jsp?iartistid=3779
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| Circus Man |
Lisette was born in Vienna, Austria, 10 November 1901 and died in New York 30 March 1983. She is quoted as saying "The camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don’t know"
Her work was published in Harpers Bazaar, exhibited in Museum of Modern Art. She started out as a singer before becoming a photographer and then also taught photography.
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