"Jesus boy," Tema Stauffer, All rights reserved
This portrait of a boy at Barton's Spring in Austin, TX by the talented Tema Stauffer stopped me cold (it's being auctioned here).
How do some photographers consistently make great portraits? I wish I knew. I have always thought they must have a gift (and maybe a few behavioral tricks) for making subjects trust them. I'm not a photographer who can do that. I don't know whether Stauffer is. I do know that sometimes it doesn't matter. A subject, sometimes a perfect stranger will, for his own reasons, offer himself exactly as he is at that moment. Eye to eye transmission.
1 comment:
Gosh - thanks! That is so cool.
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