[Leica] Spider Martin

[Ken Carney]

Thanks much for posting.  I remember some of his photos, but had not 
read about him either.

Ken


On 2/16/2015 8:07 AM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
> 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 *In an unpublished memoir included in the archive, Mr.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
>
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