[Leica] Mary Ellen Mark On Vimeo for Leica

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Bob,
Interesting. TFS.

What struck me is that most of the pictures have no emotional impact for
me, like the girls in the gang on the street, without her narration, as I
am not steeped in the nitty gritties of US culture. Goes against what Kyle
says that one of her tenets was, about not having a caption. I think that
is valid when you have a mono cultural, homogenous viewership for your
work, but once you have a cross cultural audience, a little explanation,
like a caption, is invaluable to create the emotional impact! Of course,
this observation is for the sort of photographs that she took, and
obviously would apply to a much lesser extent for nature/wildlife and that
sort of thing, but even there, giving the frame "a local habitation and a
name" does help in pulling the viewer emotionally into the frame.

My two bits!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://vimeo.com/80793010
>
> View full screen.  It is worth seeing and listening to I think, not so much
> because of Leica but because of Mary Ellen Mark.
>
> --Bob
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