Paul Goldfinger still photograph from the movie Black Swan. ©
MIRANDA SAGE From her album Moon Tiger.
EDITOR’S NOTE Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net
Note that our series of movie stills is an original concept. We can add this to our early Blogfinger idea of adding music to the presentation of still images as distinguished from the universal use of music during motion pictures. What would a movie be like without soundtrack music?
Movies have always had still photographers—you can see them mentioned in the credits. The most famous is when director John Houston invited a group of Magnum photographers to document the making of the 1961 film the Misfits.
This Misfits project has produced many famous photographs, but those are scenes from the set of the misfits—straight images such as news photos, but brilliantly interpreted by this crew of black and white photo artists “backstage” as well as during filming.
But our creative approach is to shoot notable still images from the movies themselves—notable because of the imagery created by the cinematographers and then selected by us and subject to visual interpretations with variables such as with colors, focus, composition, aberrations,etc—much different from still images obtained on movie sets.
At any rate, I hope you enjoy the Blogfinger genre of movie stills.
Here is a link to a piece we published about the Misfits photographers: