Word: talerman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long after the event. "The formal of the bride," James Purcell of Bachrach Studios remarks, "is taken two weeks before the wedding with fake flowers. They photograph just as well." But the difference is visible; the formal portraits of more recent date are stiffer, more defensive. What Herbert Talerman calls the "gorgeous innocence of those early people," the proud hauteur of the bride who felt herself being immortalized by the camera, gives way to a nervous reserve as the formal portrait comes to be considered an artifact...
Several of the photographers of the exhibit sense that this woman is not alone. Talerman predicts that soon "it won't be the people's wedding anymore, it will be the photographers'. A few stylized and pre-planned shots are latched onto and people don't realize what is happening to them. Twenty years later...they will miss their wedding." Clearly, the image is all-important...
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