Word: contrivedness
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Not all photographs in Personal Exposures reflect the spontaneity and spirit inherent in most of Erwitt's work. A photograph of a studio in East Hampton, New York, depicts nude artists painting a clothed model. This image seems too forced and contrived. It makes one wonder whether some of his...
Erwitt claims he rarely stages photographs but waits for them to happen. However, a photograph of a dog in mid-air is the result of Erwitt barking at it. The photograph is obviously contrived. But does not a photographer have the poetic licence to stage a picture? And does not...
This incident is fast (it takes place in a couple of pages), and the book never significantly deals with the aftermath of the accident, so it seems to be just another contrived misfortune in a long string. Jeremy is the Charlie Brown of modern adolescent fiction. By the time Jeremy...
Perhaps Video Sickness's most valuable asset is the quality of its acting. Its fourteen cast members, the majority of which are drawn from Harvard's improvisational theater groups, add a real vivacity to the film and often save it from lapsing into contrived, run-of-the-mill bad jokes...
Other explanations for the magic of 1939 lie more in the realm of metaphysics than economics or technology. Hollywood in those days really was Hollywood, which is to say it was the place where movies, as well as deals, were made. Very few pictures were shot on location, and inventive...