Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don was speaking specifically about [his] war photography. Yes. Words and pictures and sculpture and music can and does change "some" people. Yet wars continue with a vengeance. Weapons become ever more deadly. We continue to decimate the planet; in spite of seeing the 10's of thousands photographs and reading billions of words regarding war, famine, melting glaciers, toxic rivers and ground water, drought, starvation, loss of top soil, corporate greed, ad nauseam. Of course many of us continue to believe we can make a difference with our cameras, pens and keyboards. And that's a good thing. I suspect we primarily "preach to the choir." or "When the student is ready the teacher appears." "10 photographs that changed the world" feels a bit overstated; given the photographs sited and humankind's current relationship with war and other horrors. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 05:41 AM 9/10/2009, you wrote: >> George Lottermoser wrote: >>> Interesting interview with Don McCullin >>> in Aperture 195 >>> He doesn't think photography has changed squat. > > Well, I know that photography has changed people and people change > the world. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information