Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Today's Great Photographers {was Photo whores}
From: Mark Walberg <Walberg@simmons.swmed.edu>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 12:56:31 -0600
 
Another Mark wrote:
>i think that is a really excellent point. i was looking through the
>Requiem photos on the site that ted recommended and it struck me that
>the photographers had access to incredible misery and suffering. the
>power of the photography lies not only in their skills as photographers,
>but in their incredibly grim surroundings (?).

It should not be too much of a challenge to find significant misery and
suffering.
The abilities to see it and to portray it are the tough parts, I think.

The world is not likely to run short on misery and suffering.

- -Mark Walberg