[Leica] Mary Ellen Mark On Vimeo for Leica

[Gerry Walden]

Interesting video but too short, and maybe not her best work.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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> On 29 May 2015, at 04:41, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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