Is this how a real photographer should dress

[Don_ih]

I often wear a panama hat while out photographing.

I'd expect the paper bag to be a bigger problem.

 

[guangong]

A broad brim felt hat in cooler months and a straw hat in summer. Harder and harder to find a good hat store today, especially one that carries sized hats, as opposed to L, M, and S.
As for the vests, I like Degas’ remark to Whistler, “Why do you dress as if you have no talent.”

 

[benjiboy]

I try to dress when out shooting in the most inconspicuous manner that I can, and I don't hang a camera around my neck but hold it in my hand on a wrist strap by my side.

 

[snusmumriken]

Was this a self-portrait?

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc...ander-rodchenko-museum-series-portfolios-no-2

Meaning the last one in that series? Looks like it. The cap has aged as well as Rodchenko.

BTW, I disagree that a wide-brim hat would be better for a photographer. You could store a lot of 35mm rolls under a cap like that.

 

[Don_ih]

You could store a lot of 35mm rolls under a cap like that.

The hot head steam could also act to speed up the emulsion....

 

[Pioneer]

How does it work with wide-brim hats when one holds a camera like an SLR in portrait orientation? It doesn't hit the brim?

I just tilt it back. Same thing you do when kissing your wife.

 

[snusmumriken]

How does it work with wide-brim hats when one holds a camera like an SLR in portrait orientation? It doesn't hit the brim?

With any hat, you should use a rangefinder camera. The viewfinder can always be at the top because it's in the corner.

But anyway, Rodchenko did a lot of diagonal stuff. Examples here and here. He'd have been better off with a Rollei, probably

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

But anyway, Rodchenko did a lot of diagonal stuff.

And it got him tossed from the ranks of the People's Photographic Proletariat for being derivative and him a running-dog lackey of the bourgeois decadent West.

 

[bluechromis]

Meaning the last one in that series? Looks like it. The cap has aged as well as Rodchenko.

BTW, I disagree that a wide-brim hat would be better for a photographer. You could store a lot of 35mm rolls under a cap like that.

I meant the one with the wide-brim hat. We don't know, though, if he wore that while shooting.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Brett Weston managed to operate a pipe, but his uniform seemed to be sunglasses and a leather jacket.

I fail to see the practicality of photographing while carrying 12" or 30 cm of copper tubing, steel pipe or PCV pipe.

 

[Pieter12]

I fail to see the practicality of photographing while carrying 12" or 30 cm of copper tubing, steel pipe or PCV pipe.

You're quite right. A longer length is needed for self-defense.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

I meant the one with the wide-brim hat. We don't know, though, if he wore that while shooting.

You are supposed to turn it around when shooting. Oh, dear, that would be a capitalist Hollywood thing to do. If a flat cap was good enough for Lenin, it is good enough for Rodchenko.

 

[MattKing]

Sometimes I've wondered whether I've inadvertently wandered into a Monty Python BBC parody sketch .....

 

[reddesert]

Julian vs Gregorian calendar?

Yes, everyone born in Russia before 1918 had two birthdays, but times were hard in the early phase of the Soviet era and they could no longer afford the luxury of two birthdays, so the calendar was reformed to give everyone only one birthday.

Was this a self-portrait?

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc...ander-rodchenko-museum-series-portfolios-no-2

No, that photo with the brimmed hat and intense (doomed) gaze is certainly a portrait of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, made by Rodchenko. See:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229011/vladimir-mayakovsky

 

[Carnie Bob]

Canadian Tuxedo, and Saskatchewan Roughriders' cap.

Canadian Tuxedo and Blue Jays hat for me

 

[Sirius Glass]

Yes, everyone born in Russia before 1918 had two birthdays, but times were hard in the early phase of the Soviet era and they could no longer afford the luxury of two birthdays, so the calendar was reformed to give everyone only one birthday.



No, that photo with the brimmed hat and intense (doomed) gaze is certainly a portrait of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, made by Rodchenko. See:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229011/vladimir-mayakovsky

I have not met anyone born before 1918 that I have recently met. Much less being from Russia. I must live a sheltered life.

 

[bluechromis]

Yes, everyone born in Russia before 1918 had two birthdays, but times were hard in the early phase of the Soviet era and they could no longer afford the luxury of two birthdays, so the calendar was reformed to give everyone only one birthday.



No, that photo with the brimmed hat and intense (doomed) gaze is certainly a portrait of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, made by Rodchenko. See:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229011/vladimir-mayakovsky

Thanks reddesert.

 

[snusmumriken]

Yes, everyone born in Russia before 1918 had two birthdays, but times were hard in the early phase of the Soviet era and they could no longer afford the luxury of two birthdays, so the calendar was reformed to give everyone only one birthday.

I must be doing something wrong: my birthdays are always dirt cheap.

 

[reddesert]

By the way, it is entirely possible that the wool tunic or worker's suit with pockets worn by Rodchenko in the original photograph at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksandr-Mikhailovich-Rodchenko, was designed by his wife, the Constructivist artist, graphic designer, and clothing designer Varvara Stepanova: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varvara_Stepanova

See for example the descriptions under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varvara_Stepanova#Clothing_designs of "spetsodezhda" (work clothing) and of the belted tunics she designed for sports wear. One would have to look deeper into clothing and costume design of the early Soviet era to narrow down who the designers might be.

 

[jerrybro]

Haha You have to dress the way you want and be comfortable.

 

[Terrence Brennan]

On a photo shoot several years ago.

 

[DREW WILEY]

The pipe prevents you from getting a bent nose pressed up against the ground glass, like AA suffered from. A cowboy hat serves as both a lens shade, and attracts horse flies and mosquitos away from your neck or darkcloth, provided it has been worn long enough and sufficiently stinks - something "urban cowboys" don't understand. But the cowboy hat has to be a genuine Stetson or it doesn't count. I don't know what the Russian equivalent is, but would probably work too if it never gets washed.