Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Taking a little break from matting prints. Too bad I missed that piece on Combat Photogs. While shooting the Coast Guard's Bicentennial, in 1990, I noticed that all their photographers used Nikon F3s. Except for their older photographers most of them couldn't shoot their way out of a birthday party for a 3 year old toddler. One thing of note, is that the USCG has an artist program. Artists are invited to attend various activities and actions, which they later will make paintings from for the Coast Guard's Museum and historical archives. That courtesy can be extended to photographers from what I'm told. I think the days of an army respecting a field photographer has long been over, as they are seen more and more as an extension of the total war. In the past decade field photographers have been dying at the rate of sometimes over 50 a year. More often than not by being shot in the back. My studio, by the way, is in Fort MacArthur, Upper Reservation. The building I'm in used to be the photography intelligence section. The last usage, while it was still operational, was in reviewing the visual intelligence during the Viet Nam action. Slobodan Dimitrov "Michael E. Bérubé" wrote: > > At 10:08 AM 3/21/01 -0800, Tom Schofield wrote: > >The History Channel had a show on the top ten most dangerous professions, > >and Combat Photographer made the list, I think at #4 or thereabouts. > > "Ms on the battlefield" have been a thing of the past since the last Huey > pulled out of Saigon. > >Of course, the controversy is that the networks and news syndicates are very happy to have the photos handed to them on a silver platter, in almost real time, but that all the info is then > >coming through military channels. > > Free and with no photo credit other than US ARMY (NAVY, AIR FORCE, COAST > GAURD or MARINES) PHOTO. Some of the best work I've ever done I can't lay > claim to. (oh, but I'm not bitter....) > > :) > Carpe Luminem, > Michael E. Bérubé, 84B10F