Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Today it's "la Journée internationale de la liberté de la presse" (11th International Press Freedom Day). In 1992 Reporters sans frontières http://www.rsf.fr published "Cent Dessins" (Hundred Drawings) about the pain and joy in professional press work. Next year RSF published "Cent Photos", showing 100 aspects of human comedy, but most of all human tragedy captured by dozens of photojournalists - images of horror, love, great events, or small banalties. That was the beginning of an adventure, a bridge between militant photojournalists and ten thousands of men and women who in their daily life don't think about the obstacles that these photographers meet throughout the world, often making the information difficult. Since then RSF has published an annual book with several photojournalists and photographers, later with only one each year: Sebastião Salgado (1996), Raymond Depardon (1997), Marc Riboud (1998), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1999), Robert Doisneau (2000), and this year Willy Ronis: "The album :"Willy Ronis for Press Freedom" After Robert Doisneau, this year's photo album is devoted to the work of Willy Ronis. Willy Ronis was born in Paris in 1910. He started as a photographer while working in his father's shop, where he met Robert Capa. After the war, he got his start as a reporter and made his name by doing "social" subjects, particularly labour movements and the daily life of the French. Now 91, Willy Ronis exhibits his photos everywhere in the world. 90 photos from 1938 to 1981. 38 French francs. On sale from 27 April. A magazine with a foreword by Bertrand Poirot-Delpech of the French Academy" More about this here: http://www.rsf.fr/uk/home.html Oddmund Garvik ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif