A Few Words About Joe Klamar’s Viral (and “Obviously Terrible”) Olympic Portraits

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A Few Words About Joe Klamar’s Viral (and “Obviously Terrible”) Olympic Portraits – Reading The Pictures

Whether the picture subverts the background, the composition, the lighting or the athlete’s expression, what at least a handful of Klamar’s photos “accomplish” is to slight the plasticized image of the Olympic athlete perpetuated throughout the quadrennia

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/07/a-few-words-about-joe-klamars-viral-and-obviously-terrible-olympic-portraits/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29

So whether Klamar was hoping for something more polished or these were the results he was aiming for, what’s most interesting is how much these photos have captured widespread imagination for unconsciously deviating from the slickest standard.