Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh? Mark Rabiner wrote: > > christian becker wrote: > > > > Hm. I've always seen Salgado as an HCB epigone. Nachtwey as an McCullin > > epigone etc. . They are all pretty adapted to the market. Nothing really new. The > > ninth reproduction of cliches. > > I don't like Wolfgang Tillmann either - he has nothing to say. Maybe Anton > > Corbijn was a refreshment - until it developed into a style, manirism. > > Base line: one can only take pictures that are in one's head already. > > Therefore these pictures say more about the emptiness in these heads altogether. I > > think it would be more surprising and delightful to see the unexpected, e.g. > > McCullin going to africa, covering the AIDS epidemic and bringing back - > > beautiful pictures of people - in colour - albeit the obvious misery and NOT > > reproducing the average african- powerty/misery- in-B/W scheme. Something that > > gives these victims of photojournalism back their dignity. Something that one > > would NOT expect. Something that would let us ask: what is really going on > > there? > > > > > > We need more Beckerisms like this on this list!! > :) > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/