Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>-----Original Message----- >From: Tim Spragens [mailto:info@borderless-photos.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:31 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Eddie Adams Photo/ Jim Nachtwey in Israel > > >On 23 Oct 00, at 10:11, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> the still image stays with you - the moving sequence >> rarely does. > >This may be the exception that proves the rule, but the Zapruder >film of the John Kennedy assasination has stuck with me longer >than any still image of the event. Each medium has its effect. > >Tim S. Isn't that just because there was no "decisive moment" still photo of the assassination? Zapruder is the only imagery of the actual event, and even that is remembered by most people though the slo-mo frame-by-frame replays which really make it something other than a "motion picture". Presented like that, it's a work of historical art in its own right, that lives in a dimension of its own somewhere between a movie and a set of stills. Now the photo of Ruby shooting Oswald - there's an assassination still with some punch! Paul