Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, perhaps you could pick up your cameras, get on an aeroplane, go there, take some photos, and show us what is really going on. That's really the only way anybody's likely to take you seriously. - --- Bob mailto:bob@web-options.com Thursday, August 02, 2001, 8:17:06 AM, you 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?