I am SOOOO jealous! Would you mind if I reblogged some of the more Tricialisous photos on my tumblr site, Tricia Nixon Chic? I will give your site full credit and am posting the link to this post as we speak!
Hi a lot of people outside this blog mentioned that these are family snapshots of casual days. As a photographer, I don’t think so. There are a lot of hints that these photos are carefully staged and lit. Ever tried to photograph a person against a blue sky or inside against a window? You’d need a lot of serious lighting kit to balance out as much as on these pictures. In some shiny objects you can even see the large reflectors for the softboxes. Then there are the perfect framing palm leaves, the perfect golden cut of the frame balance. Seems like tricky Dicky didn’t leave even his family snaps without secret manipulation. Still a great find, and also reminds me how great the makers of Mad Men are in getting the details (and lighting and colour) of this period right.
I am SOOOO jealous! Would you mind if I reblogged some of the more Tricialisous photos on my tumblr site, Tricia Nixon Chic? I will give your site full credit and am posting the link to this post as we speak!
Please do! You are doing wonderful things over at “Tricia Nixon Chic!”
This calendar is AMAZING! What a find! You must have nearly died when you found it.
What REALLY killed me was that I couldn’t buy them all. There was a complete set from the 1950s. Oh well, maybe I’ll go back…
Go back! Too Cool! Phil X Milstein says hi
That’s my favorite shot as well. “Tricialicious” indeed!
Grrrreeeeeaaaaaat blog!
Great pics! Do you know what beach that is?
I don’t! Presumably, these were taken before the purchase of the San Clemente compound.
Hi a lot of people outside this blog mentioned that these are family snapshots of casual days. As a photographer, I don’t think so. There are a lot of hints that these photos are carefully staged and lit. Ever tried to photograph a person against a blue sky or inside against a window? You’d need a lot of serious lighting kit to balance out as much as on these pictures. In some shiny objects you can even see the large reflectors for the softboxes. Then there are the perfect framing palm leaves, the perfect golden cut of the frame balance. Seems like tricky Dicky didn’t leave even his family snaps without secret manipulation. Still a great find, and also reminds me how great the makers of Mad Men are in getting the details (and lighting and colour) of this period right.
These are definitely promotional materials, not casual snapshots. They were part of the official 1968 campaign literature.
What a supercreep swine of a gent. He actually appears semi-human in some of these……..A FIRST