Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Photo essayists attempt to depict a sense of being there. > While some of the images were ineffective, most were good. > I certainly got a feeling of observing the event, as stilted as the > point of view evidently was. > > also: > While one comment Colen made was; "Most of the photos are meaningless > without their captions, which is to say they are meaningless as > photos.", > > A photo is worth a thousand words- isn't that the saying?? ...Not necessarily, Paul, and it is sad you had to personalize this exchange... "it is probably accurate to surmise anything would be lost on > the writer.".. Good pictures are indeed often worth a thousand words are more, mediocre pictures may say little beyond the fact that the photographer was present at something, taking photos of something. I can't help wondering what event you got a sense of being at from observing the photos taken in New York. Was it a street fair? A political rally? A religious gathering? A Civil Rights rally? A Black Power event? And, if as one of the captions suggests, "the :real gang was the gang in blue" - and news reports, news photos, and video reportage, certainly suggest that that was the case - where is a single photo that shows us that? It's simply not there. Sorry, Paul, but this Emperor's clothes are made out of Saran Wrap.