Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It makes you wonder if that particular stone would get launched if the cameras were not there...I'm trying to imagine myself as a really ticked off protestor of...whatever. Why would I get SO close to a bunch of gawking photographers? Because I know that the stone doesn't do a damned thing, but my image and the countless other "angry guy throwing stones at guys with guns and tanks etc." shot never fails to make the news. (amazing after all these years of the same. Note to news agencies, I have a pretty good idea what stone throwing looks like, try something new) As an aside, it is notable that the BEST photojournalism...the stuff that has tranceded time (Smith, Capa, Mark, Salgado etc.) is far more personal in it's rendering of subjects. They showed more than just anger. Thirty years on I'll bet most of us know the background on the shot of a mother washing her daughter in the Minamata essay by Eugene Smith. It made you FEEL pain. It was powerful because it was so close to our own reality. Can someone say that the deluge of blown off limbs and bloated corpses we have seen has given more than a visceral (horrified) response? Have they made us NEED to look? My two cents... Dan States Madison WI >Here's the real problem here.....This is THE photo that most accurately >conveys the reality of the moment, NOT the photo the various shooters - >including Nachtwey - are making. > >Susan Sontag, where are you?;-) > >B. D. > >Douglas Herr wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 October 2000, Tina Manley wrote: > > > > > > > > At 08:19 AM 10/21/00 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > > >When someone like James Nachtwey is out in some god-forsaken part of >the > > > >world, photographing things which I am just barely able to muster the > > > >strength to look at, do you think he notices the silken feel of the >brass > > > >gears of his cameras? Perhaps he is thankful that they are steel, >and that > > > >the cameras are the last things he need worry about should things go > > > >terribly wrong. > > > > > > > >Dan C. > > > > > > > > > Speaking of James Nachtwey - this photograph is being discussed over >on the > > > LEG. The photojournalist in the middle in the white shirt is James >Nactwey: > > > > > > >http://www.msnbc.com/modules/slideshow/TWIP_2000_1020_/slideshow.asp?fmt=&s=1&v=28 > > > > > > Click on photo #2. What do you think? > > > > > > > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > > It looks like a media event to me. > > > > Doug Herr > > Birdman of Sacramento > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Stay in touch with Northwestern and the world. Click >http://www.nualumni.com to get your FREE Northwestern StartPage. Customize >your own collection of the latest news, sports, stock quotes, and more. >Check it out today! > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.