[Leica] Hillary For Prison Sign Behind Barbed Wire

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

+1

The photo was offered as an interesting image, not as a political promotion. Would anyone object to posting photographically interesting images of an anti-Trump or anti-Clinton rally? Don’t we all wish we had been the one to have snapped the iconic image of a Black man in a 3-piece suit at a protest about to be skewered by a bigot using a flagstaff, replete with Old Glory, as a spear?

—howard


> On Sep 29, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To my mind, the photo was no indication of Chris's politics.
> 
> Like many of his images it was a document of the state of mind in his part
> of the world.
> 
> It was less a political statement of his stance than Jim's of LBGT events
> or even some Lluis's images.
> 
> It was not judgemental in any way, unlike the frequent reactions of disgust
> over obesity, or drunk jokes about rosacea sufferers.
> 
> I didn't like the content, but it's an image portraying something I live
> with everyday.  It's not even the worst I've seen.
> 
> When people say they don't like flowers or cats, I don't care.  I want you
> to look at the photography, the light, the composition, not the pretty
> flower or the cute cat.
> 
> Chris made no statement about his personal beliefs, but the composition was
> terrific, as usual, and the background elements combined to make a powerful
> image.
> 
> Look at it again as a photographer.
> 
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2489
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
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