joshfred

18 May 2024

Leica M9 Review: A Visual Essay On Surrealism

All the pictures were made with the camera, without any image manipulation.

Striped dress laid on a bed as if worn, bare legs and feet extending onto the floor, cut hair beside itYoung woman staring into the camera against black, a second blurred face floating below herMultiple exposure of pale hands pressed against a dark body, palms stacked from face to feetWoman holding a small square mirror over her face, one enlarged eye staring out of the reflectionYoung woman in a white t-shirt resting her chin on her fist, frowning into the camera in a bare room
Long-exposure portrait against black: a woman's face sharp on the left, smeared into a blur to the rightBack of a head of long dark hair filling the frame against a pale wallMirrored portrait of a seated woman, the doubled halves giving her a single central eye and grinning mouthGirl holding two spiral-patterned discs over her eyes, hands framing her face against a plain wall
Woman holding a powder compact and makeup brushes up toward the camera, face behind her handsWoman balancing on her hands in a bare corner, legs bent up against the wall behind herBare-chested person pulling a shirt up over their head in a bedroom, face hidden by the fabricSilhouetted head in profile among standing legs at a party, backlit by a bright haze of light
Two figures walk away down a night street, city lights smeared by long-exposure blurShadow of a person with splayed fingers cast on a bright patch of floor in a dark roomHand with dark nail polish inside a water-beaded latex glove, the empty fingers hanging limpPale hands folded against dark clothing, the only light in an otherwise black frame
Soft-focus mirror self-portrait: man in a wide-brimmed hat and glasses raising a camera to his faceMan in a hood and glasses holding a rangefinder camera to his chest, face half-coveredCashier reaching over the till at a Netto discount supermarket while an elderly customer bends over her trolleyFive mannequin legs in patterned socks stand upright above a supermarket rack of packaged socksTowering stacks of labelled timber boards in a yard, receding in repeating layers against a white sky
Diagonal balcony railings and their striped shadows on a rough concrete wallRow of clipped trees along a gravel park path beside a low wave-shaped concrete wallBroad multi-trunked tree filling the frame in a bare park, a lone walker passing on the path behindShoppers with trolleys queuing far apart across a supermarket car park, one woman masked in the foreground
People scattered on a park lawn, one bending to a bag, Berlin's TV tower on the skylineRoad marking on asphalt of a cyclist pictogram, reduced to abstract white shapes
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