Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:38 AM 11/6/97 +0200, you wrote: >Wouldn't it be a bit more relevant e.g. to have a book/radio=A0=20 >program about why so few photojournalists died in the Gulf War?=A0=20 >About the blackout, about the sanitized coverage, about TV versus=A0=20 >photo, about people swallowing it all as "modern war". Sure, there's a time and place for that, but to ignore this topic when such a wonderful book as just been published is simply inappropriate. If all we can see in life is the negative, then our photography will only be negative. If we don't remember the good photojournalism done in previous wars, especially Vietnam where censorship was at an all-time low, what they did to us in the Gulf War won't seem so bad.=20 It stands in stark contrast to the wonderful (yet terrible in its subject matter) work done before. History will never be the same if we don't have the access we used to get. Though ground warfare becoming obsolete makes it hard to photograph large-scale war. There's still plenty of the old-style wars.=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I used to have a handle on life, then it broke