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An older gent with long flowing beard stood posed with his camera opposite Rackhams in Shrewsbury today. He saw me glance at him and lowered his lens. He was aiming his camera at scantily clad shop window models! Am I missing something; is this a oft photographed subject?
Takes all sorts.
Maybe his camera only had a slow shutter speed or manual focus and real subjects would not stand still long enough.
Maybe he is a photoshop wiz and wanted the base of a great creation.
Maybe he took the photo, and glanced at you to say your turn.
Maybe he is the clothing designers uncle and proud of his nieces work on display.
Maybe 20 other camera phone images were taken before and afterwards but unnoticed.
Lots of maybe's, not just the potentially obvious stereotype.
I know I look at window displays for artistic or posing inspiration - and no not just Ann Summers.
Mannequins have been stared at and photographed for over a century. It’s easy to see why: they’re idealised human forms, either attired in interesting clothing or incongruously nude. They’re posed to perfection, reflecting eras, culture, and politics. Whether they’re creepy in their realism or artistically simple, they typically convey a strong sense of the bizarre. And to top off their fatal attraction to photographers, they’re professionally lit by window dressers.
There’s nothing wrong with taking pictures of them.
They are harder to photograph than a real life model, Well, Harder to accomplish a meaningful composition that is.....
Done well they can convey something that is in the mind of the Artist/Photographer, I don't see a problem with using a mannequin or 3 for a particular image/set.
Some might see it as strange, But the real question is this, If you think its strange or odd, What on earth is running through your mind.....
It might be what you think, Then again it might not......LOL....
He was probably a street photography taking a self portrait, its very much in vogue at the mo, the inclusion of scantily dressed mannequins are essential, if you want street cred
Try Amsterdam, while your there you can call into a coffee shop and smoke some pot, only don`t smoke it out in the street while photographing those mannequins, you might get arrested
Quote: He was aiming his camera at scantily clad shop window models!
Despicable - you would never catch me doing that.
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