Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Nachtwey
From: ARTHURWG@aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:05:53 EDT
 
Paul: I guess I could be projecting.  But I just feel there's something about 
Nachtwey's photos that disturb me in ways that I don't get from other 
war/disaster photos. That includes Gilles Perez, Don McCullin,  Phillip 
Jones-Griffith, Robert Capa and others of similar subject matter. Maybe it's 
the perfect, classical composition and the unbelivably good printing'; or 
just the exquisitely artful style applied to such horror.  It troubles me and 
I mistrust it. As for others opinions, most seem to see Nachtwey as the 
second comming of Christ. I guess I prefer to think for myself. Arthur