Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it's interesting to read all these interpretations of events 30 years ago. i talked to a photographer called tim page who apparently spent alot of time in vietnam and came close to death several times himself. he portrayed events there very pragmatically. they used the cameras they used because they were repairable in the field. nikon and canon were giving them equipment. the horror of losing friends touched them, but their role as observers distanced them from their subject, the war itself. when i met him the war had been over for at least 10 years. it still effected him very deeply, that much was kind of obvious from the way he spoke about it. it was as if the war was something he wanted to leave behind but could not, his psyche was entangled by it. he was extremely respectful of the people involved, on both sides. i take a cue from that, that while i may judge the people involved to be right or wrong, i respect the fact of their having been in a situation i cannot empathize with and am not able to predict my own reaction to. mark