People molesting statues

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Editor

With millions and millions of people routinely carry cameras in their pocket every day, we see new photographic categories all the time.  We like to think of these as statue outrages. . .

                      

         

 

         

 

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Olmec Exhibit at LACMA In L.A., along with

We went to see the William Eggleston show at LACMA in LA. Wow. He is a color photography genius...really like the show. They had around 200 photographs from 1961-2008. The dye transfer process brings out these  saturated riots of heartbreakingly great color. He goes after the everyday image--not just glamor shots or ponderous portraits.  I really didn't know about him before this show, but he has apparently been a big influence on art and artists.

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Popular Photography ages the current crop of candidates for President

Before, and after photos of the current President

Popular Photography online has a fascinating article, The Candidates: How will they look in four years? They took photos of Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain and applied various aging (e.g., wrinkling, filling out, greying, sagging) to them to show how they might look in the future.

I've seen editors "unage" people before, and I've seen police sketches where they tried to show what a missing child or criminal might look like many years later. In any case, this is utterly fascinating. Go to the article and roll over the photos to see the effects of age. Of course, we do know that some of the tabloid photo editors do their best to emphasize the bad over the good, but in this case, of course, older is not worse. It's just older. Obviously in a race where one candidate is 20+ years older than the other, there will be some visible wear and tear!

This is really incredible work. You probably don't want to see your own pumpkin given the same treatment, do you?

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