|
|
|
   
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Wedding Photos Losing Focus June 23, 2000 Ah, the memory-filled images of a wedding album. The bride in her flowing gown. The beaming parents. The best man's elbow. That's right, the elbow. Or, in the case of Jen Kash Hartog's wedding photos, the groomsmen's feet, a guest's butterfly tattoo and the headless torso of the happy couple in full embrace. "I just felt all the wedding photography I've ever seen was really cheesy," says Mrs. Hartog, 29 years old, an attorney who got married in April. "I wanted something that was much more artsy." ... In fact, many couples who ask for a photojournalist, when pressed for specifics, really also want plenty of posed, color pictures of the important people in their wedding, says Claudia Hanlin, owner of a wedding-services boutique in New York. Yet hard-core photojournalists are loath to take such shots. "Traditional wedding photographers are seen as being at the bottom of the totem pole," says Michelle Walker, a San Francisco-based wedding photojournalist. Ms. Walker, who is working on a side project on images of exotic insects, says she'll take up to a half-hour of posed pictures as a concession to parents, but that's it.
|
|
|
|
 |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
