Saturday 13th October 2012

I read an article on ‘Leon Borensztein’ about his portraits taken during the era of Reagan in the USA. Borensztein was born in Poland and moved to Israel in the late 1960’s, then moving to the USA to study photography full time at the San Francisco Arts Institute. The collection taken during this time was in the main of ‘middle class American’s’ and was a personal project whilst actually being paid to work by someone else within the portrait studio environment. By showing the positive ‘middle class’ attitudes even in tough times, it opened up Borensztein mind to the middle classes in his new country. The images were taken in black and white and were all staged using various backgrounds.