Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michael Volow wrote: snip talking with his potential subjects before photographing them. > > I also got the impression that, in his wartime photographs, Capa did not > always aim for the thick of the action, but found many of his best > pictures behind the action, in lines of refugees, in soldiers resting > from combat, etc. snip On this concept of when in doubt get closer or if it's not very good get closer: I can see how that might be the ethic of a bunch of twenty something macho war photographers. For them it's a war of guts. Getting closer to the bullets flying. Any war photographers out there have that? Or otherwise? Mark Rabiner