RE: [Leica] Photojournalisim and 9/11

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

well... I don't see the people of Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Afghanistan, N.
Korea or Belfast etc etc having had their lot changed much by the impact of
music either...! (give or take the bandaid of liveaid)

Music is as much the soma of the masses as the news media, in general terms.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Allan
> Wafkowski
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:24 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photojournalisim and 9/11
>
>
> Yes, reportage does impact on our perceptions, but how much? Hasn't rock
> music changed the world much more? From the same era music we had
> changes is clothing, language, and mores that continue to this day and
> have been built on. We receive news through de facto authorized sources
> that are fed to us without our becoming a part of the apparatus. Aren't
> we much more changed by the things we are a part of? The dances we
> danced, the music we listened to, the people he loved or hated. The
> things we helped create have a profound effect on us. Much more so than
> the things that are fed us.
>
> Allan
>
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 12:27 PM, Andrew Amundsen wrote:
> > I'm only 32, but I have read that Eddie Adam's photo of the 'Saigon
> > street execution', Nick Ut's image of a girl running screaming after
> > being naplamed, and Phillip Jones Griffith's book 'Vietnam,Inc.' all had
> > enormous impact on history, politics and America's involvment in
> > Vietnam!
>
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