Re: [Leica] Re: WOW!

["animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>]

Well the root of the word has to do with news or gossip.Not to be confused
with the similar sounding rap...which has it,s root  in sympathy or close
relation.
brgds  simon jessurun
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From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: WOW!


> B. D. Colen
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> > No. At least not in my hardly-humble-opinion. I cannot for the life of
me
> > see why they won a prize for "reportage." On the other hand, what the
hell
> > is "reportage?" I never see the word used anywhere but in Leica ads and
> > websites.<<<<
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> Hi B.D.,
> The word "reportage" was a regularly used word for many years to describe
> photo story, photo essay, documentary  and generally accepted as
> photojournalism with a different name. But primarily in Europe.
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> The winner's photography could hardly be called "reportage" along the
lines
> of the good old days of Paris Match, LIFE, LOOK and many other
> photojournalistic type magazines of the past. Or if they still exist don't
> use 12 pages of "reportage photography" in any one edition.
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> Today, "Gotta make the big advertising bucks!" So the quality of reportage
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> photojournalism work is down sized to one or two pictures and rarely a two
> page photo layout.
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> Maybe some of our European members can offer something about the
"reportage"
> word as used in that part of the world today.
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