Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard asked : Subject: [Leica] War Photos > For those of us too young to live through WWII, Korean War, or even the > Vietnam War, what do y''all think of this photo? > > http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/15/marine.photo.ap/index.html > > To me, it has a little bit of gritty intense feel of DDD's photos?<<<<<<,, Richard, It's interesting, but he might as well be made up for TV. I realize he isn't. However. The kind of picture you're talking about is a must for B&W, the gritty stuff from WW2, Korea, 'Nam and any other war stuff, the power of the photograph is in B&W. Why? Because it falls into: "When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in B&W you photograph their souls!" And that's what sorts this "colour make-up photograph" out from the real gritty war pictures of the past. Yes of course there's been pretty powerful colour war images, Larry Burrows stuff from 'Nam come to mind. But this has the appearance of a Marine portrait in colour! No offence intended. ted