Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've gone back and looked the breadline photo many times over the last 38 years. It is interesting to see how images can sometimes just happen happen.The FSA website has quite a few different "Migrant Mother" photos as well as many images by the other FSA shooters. .Another photographer from the FSA period who's work I admire is Ben Shahn. After the project he became much more famous as a painter and left-wing activist. For some reason his work just strikes a chord with me. Walt Dave Mason wrote: >Walt, > >That was the photo of the man holding a beat-up tin cup who is facing >the opposite way from another group of men - yes? What an amazing >image. I believe I saw an alternate version of that photo taken with a >more straight-on point-of-view and the photo loses almost all the >power of the original. Same with the famous "Migrant Mother" shot - >there are many alternates to that one which are great to see for the >photography lesson contained within. > > >Dave > >Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> writes: > > > > >>I recently came across a copy of /*An American Exodus*/ by Lange and >>her husband. Paperback, printed in 1969 and a bit battered but a >>fantastic document. Cost me all of $3.00. As far as the interment >>images being dark and disturbing? At the time many Americans probably >>wanted to do the same to the Japanese Americans we will shortly do to >>Saddam. The internment camps were, in my opinion, completely >>unjustified but sometimes truth is dark and disturbing, Lange seemed >>to seek out truth as Kyle does gun nuts. She did an image I can close >>my eyes and see called /*White Angel Breadline*/. Don't know if you're >>familiar with it or not but well worth a look. >> >> > > > >>Dave Mason wrote: >> >> >> >>>http://tinyurl.com/ymw9sk >>> >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >