Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 11/9/02 3:57:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << So we come back to the question of what is or isn't documentary photography.....I believe that if one sets out to "document" a situation, be it the lives of failing farmers in the dust bowl and "okies" on the road, or the daily life of a middle class family, one is obligated to "document" - preserve - things as one finds them, and not set up photos to tell the story one had in mind. >> Where would you classify Salgado's work then, since he seems to seek and record human misery in his body of work almost exclusively? It would appear that that is his "point of departure" most of the time. Would you consider his work "slanted?" If one is out there to record the death and destruction of war, for example, then one will go home with prints full of images depicting horror and death and blood and misery. One would not be tempted to point one's camera at soldiers singing and playing banjo in front of a campfire during a lull in the fighting, would one? Dante - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html