Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: > Private? How poignant! > He doesn't want some damn reporter from the Village Voice tagging along after him.<<<<<<<<<<<< Mark, So true! This reporter may never have been any farther than 10 miles away from his warm bed and to get off a plane into the situations Nachtwey photographs, he'd probably be puking all over the place, becoming a liability to Nachtwey. I've had to work with some very , shall I call them stupid.? Maybe naive reporters, more polite, in my day, who see we photographer's as voyeur's and wish to "tag along" for a touch of the excitement.......... because we get close to the really "neat stuff!" And I can imagine the Village Voice reporter was close to this type of attitude when interviewing Nachtwey, an "in your face photographer of death." Otherwise he wouldn't have used the, "What I didn't understand then, and do now, is how private he wants his experience of these public catastrophes to be. "<<<<<<< Stupid reporter! ted Victoria, Canada http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant