tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894545371094772027.post6838503038389942299..comments2019-06-28T14:33:14.570-07:00Comments on The History of Photog Blog: 2.17.10 Riis: The Humanitarian PhotographerAlex Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13082443803193144693noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894545371094772027.post-59342468011379836992011-08-05T04:27:13.905-07:002011-08-05T04:27:13.905-07:00It's worth adding that although Riis posed som...It's worth adding that although Riis posed some of his subjects, this is not a staged photo. The boy on the left has splotches of snow on his hat and coat sleeve which even cast shadows. A chunk of ice, fallen from some overhanging structure, balances precariously on his wrist. If he were pretending to be asleep, he'd have felt this cold stuff and brushed it off. Instead, unconscious in his slumber, he left it where it fell on him. <br /><br />In an age when photo-manipulation techniques were primitive, such fine details couldn't have been added during processing. The evidence of extreme cold is real. <br /><br />Besides having no decent place to sleep, these boys certainly owned no shoes. Since they were actually asleep, it wasn't a case of the photographer asking them to remove their shoes to increase the pathos of a posed picture. And they would have worn any available footwear rather than sleep outdoors barefoot in the frigid weather.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966817640665500371noreply@blogger.com