Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good story in the NYT about Spider Martin and his work in Selma, AL in 1965. I never heard of Spider till today. See the photo of a treed Spider in the 6th photo of slide show to keep this dispatch on topic. /matt *"Those photos distilled the chaos into a series of ?legible dramas,? Mr. Berger said: a state trooper pointing <http://www.spidermartin.com/image-gallery/rxtx0c3nbgkjd4gn6gkdr6uzxvel9h> toward a row of marchers just before the moment of confrontation; John Lewis falling <http://teaching.clevelandhistory.org/files/2012/05/2.3.jpg> to police clubs at the Pettus bridge; the wounded Amelia Boynton being lifted <http://www.spidermartin.com/image-gallery/3rxim0w97tprdrv969hksmsf8vr3wd>to her feet by fellow marchers.* *In an unpublished memoir included in the archive, Mr. Martin describes climbing trees or rickety church towers to get distinctive shots during the successful five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, developing film in makeshift roadside darkrooms and transmitting images through a hot-wired telephone pole."* http://bit.ly/spider_martin