Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 07:59 PM 9/13/99 -0400, TSL wrote: > >The impact is no doubt that instant which is so powerful. To be quite > >honest - and this is a personal opinion that's all - there are not many > >pictures that can have that kind of impact. > > All I can say to this is, you just don't see it. It's not that it isn't > there in many, many pictures. I'm sure you're telling the truth. But just > because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. And judging from > people's reactions (both pro and amateur) I'd say you are in the minority. > (Not a bad thing, just the way it is). > > Ernst Haas' picture of the woman fearfully holding up a picture of a loved > one as refugees from WWII come back home. Or Sebastiao Salgado's pictures > of Ethiopian refugees standing in a sand storm, with the most amazing light > surrounding them, a child's head tilted slightly. David Douglas Duncan's > photo of the shell-shocked soldier. David Turnley's photo of the soldier in > the evacuation helicopter during the gulf war. His fact stricken with grief > because he just found out the person in the body bag next to him is a friend. > > Eisenstadt's photos of the ballerinas in the window, or the kids falling > into line behind the drum major - or even his sailor kissing the nurse. > Many of the photos in "The Americans" by Robert Frank. Migrant Mother. > (Don't even need to mention the photographer's name on that one). Kertesz's > night photo of snow falling in Washington Park. > > Gene Smith's Minimata photo essay. Most likely one of the most successful > photo essays of all time. (And the one he most "compromised" on without > complaint). > > Robert Capa's death of a soldier. > > For those with eyes to see, it's quite plain that photography is a powerful > medium. That can create icons that change the way people see the world. > Eric you are clearly a man committed to the love of photography. And that is the bottom line for and with me. I'm going to print this and maybe cut a window mat, frame it and hang it on the lathe and plaster. Mark Rabiner