These storytellers are made by potters from the Cochiti Pueblo (Louis and Virginia Naranjo, Ada Suina, and Nowecka). Apparently, these figures take about a month to make, and the supply of cream-colored slip for the traditional pottery has nearly disappeared.
A continuing attempt at Get-Pushed-78. My partner Tracey H-N @traceyhn said, "I'd like you to incorporate child-like softness in to your photo. Something that makes the viewer go, 'awwwww.'"
I was drawn to these figures for my challenge because children were engaged in the storytelling (although their mouths are more shaped to say, "oh . . . .", and I thought the ones in the center figure were more emotionally expressive and perhaps the one who appears to have an injury on the head might elicit an "aww . . ." But, as Michael @vankrey noted, although dolls represent childhood, they, in and of themselves, don't necessarily inspire "childlike softness."
Lovely dolls, beautifully captured. Still not sure about the "aww" factor. I think just the middle doll, with a shallow dof and lowish contrast, against a lighter background, focusing on the two playing children in the mother's lap, taken from above right so the mother's face is in profile but out of focus.
January 23rd, 2014
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