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Lloyd Erlick: Unretouched Portraits

(c) Lloyd Erlick: Great Grand Nana, 1997
“Great Grand Nana, 1997″
© Lloyd Erlick

If you call Lloyd Erlick a “photographer,” he may take it as a horrible mouthful. “Artist?” - that’s a pretentious overworked word. And what about “portraitist?” - ostentatious! But if you put all this together, you’ve got it settled, since Lloyd is a black and white photographic portrait artist.

“Oh man, aren’t you a bit pretentiously ostentatious now?,” I almost hear your thinking. Well, I am not. I already visited his site www.heylloyd.com and watched his beautiful black&white family portraits. Whole ten pages of nice photos, all with stories and technical info behind them.

“Pride is a dangerous thing, and it’s certain that as a portraitist I pride myself on my ability to ’see’, understand, perceive, feel, the people whose portraits I make. And yet time after time I see things in the pictures I missed at the time I made the portraits. This is one of the fascinating things about photography in general, and especially about photographing humans.” - Lloyd Erlick -

Comments

  1. Here is an additional comment I received from Lloyd: The featured image, “Great Grand Nana, 1997? won a place in the M.I.L.K. International photo contest in 1999. It was published in the book they produced, “Love”. The chief judge was Elliott Erwitt, and I received an actual email with the actual words, signed by him, “Congratulations, you are a winner in the category of Love.”

    Comment by Phoetica 1/23/2004 @ 3:31 pm

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