Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 29 June 2000, Harrison McClary wrote: > > > > >What do they care about, and what will they care about? > > > >Go to a place where a house is burning down. Watch the woman of the family as > >she hurridly shoves the kids out the door and then, in the last 5 seconds in > >her flaming home, has one chance to grab something. What does she grab? -- > >and as a news reporter I can tell you this is invariably the case? > > > >The family photo albums, that's what. > > Charlie is onto something here, I think. I have spent much of my > career as a news-photographer and have in recent years realized that > the photos people look back on to and hold in their memories are not > those momentums images that are part of the "public" conscious such > as the Eddie Adams photo or others. The photos people look at are the > old shots of their cities, town and home area. The photos of their > relatives as kids, the photos that show the common person in his/her > element, after all we all consider ourselves common, normal, part of > the status quo. Very few are part of international events and in the > great scheme of living our daily lives those major events fade into > white noise that, while important, pale in comparison to our child's > first steps, words, the struggle of earning our daily bread, the > simple process of living. > > I have photos of Presidents, winners of Supper Bowls, World Series's, > Master's golf, a photo of the three pitchers who pitched the first > ever combined no hitter in the National League baseball division, yet > of far more import to me are the photos of my daughter I have made > over the past few years. > > Photos such as Natchwey, Salgado, Chris Morris and others make are > very important and need to be made to inform and appal, and remind us > that such things do happen, but other kinds of photographs are > equally important and should not be discounted for lack of > news/social change value. > > To document life on has to go no further than what lies in front of > him. The Leica M is probably the best tool for documentary > photography made, use it and do not sweat the "import" of the photos > you are making. File them, id them and your great great grand kids > will enjoy looking at them. > -- > Harrison McClary > http://www.mcclary.net There's a very simple reason I use Kodachrome. So the photos of my kids will be around for their grandchildren to enjoy. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/