Re[2]: [Leica] Salgado - Simply The Best?? Talk amongst yourselves

[Bob Walkden <bob@web-options.com>]

Hi,

it was a joke! I've read them all, and then some. Call the dogs off.

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 Bob  

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Friday, August 03, 2001, 12:28:06 AM, you wrote:

> Aw, come on, Bob....Jokes, novels, and movies aside, the good ones do
> NOT do it from the hotel bar. The hacks do it from the hotel bars.

> Read A Bright Shining Lie....and it will tell you far far more about
> what we call the Vietnam War than all the photos laid end to end....and
> believe me, I am an ardent admirer of many of those photos and the folks
> who shot them - many of whom lost their lives doing so - AND I wouldn't
> argue for a minute with the proposition that it was the photos, and the
> t.v. images, that forced an end to the war, and not the words....

> Similarly, read "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed
> Along With Out Families" - hope I've got the title right...and it will
> tell you far far more than all the grisly, moving, disturbing,
> important, photos of Rwanda - the photos certainly convey the disgusting
> inhumanity and brutality of that situation, but they provide virtually
> NO context or explanation for it.

> B. D.

> Bob Walkden wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> > And while you are right about the power and perceived accuracy of photo
>> > reportage - and its impact and believability - good written journalism
>> > can and often does convey a far fuller, far far more accurate "picture"
>> > of a situation or event than photography, with its nanoseconds out of
>> > context, can ever hope to convey.
>> 
>> yes, it often can, but I think that photography wins hands down
>> because the photographer has to be there. The writer can do it from
>> the hotel bar! Guess they're the smart ones :o)
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>>  Bob
>> 
>> mailto:bob@web-options.com