Word: schweig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dichotomy of "portrait vs. candid," and define themselves and their work in those terms. "I don't want to put down candids, but we portraitists have our eyes on something--a moment of grandeur," Bradford Bachrach says. "Candids are for the moment but portraits are for all time." Martin Schweig presents the opposite view. "I prefer candids; in the studio everything is phony except the photographer." Splitting Wedding between "Formal Portraits" and "Candids" (with a short "History" section), Norfleet has enforced this division...
...Schweig tells of a woman who "asked me to take pictures as the bridesmaids came down the aisle. I resisted because I don't want to be intrusive and you need flash with moving people in a church. It turned out she didn't care if I had film in the camera, she just wanted her guests to see the flashes...
Black and white, color, formal or candid, these photos are steeped in symbolic importance. The participants are visibly tense; they want to get it right, this eternal image. None of the men know what to do with their hands. One of Martin Schweig's brides clutches a bouquet and stares terrified into the camera. A row of Bachrach bridesmaids stand cracking smiles in their porcelain white faces, as alike as the ticky-tacky boxes they stand in front...