Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:37 AM 3/11/98 +0100, you wrote: >could be compiled from most of them. Some would require specialist >knowledge just to understand the list. With all respect Eric, I would bet >that the likes of HCB or CW could sit on a bench in Times Square and fill a >weeks supply of newspapers. The variety would be equally astounding, but >with little effort. Name one thing, besides pure art photography and nudes that photojournalists don't photograph. One thing. In a lecture that Duane Michales led at my journalism school one time, he was quite adamant about what we do compared to what he does. Photojournalists are generalists who photograph many things well, but few things great, whereas he photographs a very narrow spectrum of things, and most of it great. (In his style, one might not like it and consider it great). We are challenged to photograph just about anything any other photographer photographs. Nature, portraits, sports, news, food, fashion, funny feature pictures, funerals, architecture, sunsets, macro, astrophotography, night, day, fast, slow. It goes on and on. If it's photographable, we do it. Dr. Seuss should write a book about us, but alas, he's dead. And your argument about HCB might apply from some small hack newspaper weekly, but not the daily I work for. They make great pictures, but they are way too specialized in their shooting to fill a newspaper. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Give me ambiguity or give me something else.