Well, the students share the same model and set-up. What did you expect? I would hope to see a multitude of styles of drawing/painting of those same models.
The hypocrisy and fancy terms to define a photograph usually comes out in proportion to how dumb, stupid, banal, redundant, poorly executed the photo is. meaning, the worse it is, the more fancy terms will be used to make it "art"
Friedlander's nudes are definitely unconventional. They remind me in many ways of some of Bill Brandt's nudes.
Thinking of which, I now own a trio of his nudes. The frames are arriving shortly and will go up on the wall in the stairway gallery. I'll post a shot of the gallery once they're hung.
As in estate prints on fiber paper from the original negatives. All three are contact prints from 8x10 negatives.
They will be hung well on the wall... (I've got 12x15 white wood box frames, 8ply mats). No worries about delicate sensibilities though- there's no winkies on display in any of the three. The ones they had at the auction that were frontal nudes went for WAY more money than I could afford.
A combination of patience and the right online estate auctions. I've found some stellar deals that way on things. I got my big Voigtlander Petzval from 1863 that way, in a package deal with my Cooke Series II (because the auction house was too lazy to clean them and too lazy to do a basic google search, I got the Voigtlander and the Cooke for $225 with shipping. When that particular auction house has large format gear, they often mis-describe it or under-describe it, so bargains are to be had for anything that doesn't have immediate brand recognition (for example, Deardorff 8x10 cameras sell at market prices, as do Leicas- if anything, the Leica stuff can go high). I also got a painting that way - they were too lazy to read the artist's signature, so I got a $3000 painting for $300. But you roll the dice - you can go months on end without seeing anything worthwhile, and then get slammed back-to-back with enough great bargains you have to make choices.
No, in this case, the "estate" means that it came from the George Platt Lynes estate that was donated to a public collection. These prints are "work prints" in that they're not signed or numbered, but they were definitely made in his studio/darkroom, and they're vintage prints (you can tell from the paper). The term "estate print" has a specific meaning in the fine art world - it's a print that may have been made posthumously from the artist's negatives, so they aren't considered as 'authoritative' as a vintage print, but they still have collectible value.
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