Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I... this.... splutter! <speechless!> >christian becker wrote: > Hm. I've always seen Salgado as an HCB epigone. Nachtwey as an McCullin > epigone etc. . They are all pretty adapted to the market. Nothing > really new. The > ninth reproduction of cliches. > I don't like Wolfgang Tillmann either - he has nothing to say. Maybe Anton > Corbijn was a refreshment - until it developed into a style, manirism. > Base line: one can only take pictures that are in one's head already. > Therefore these pictures say more about the emptiness in these > heads altogether. I > think it would be more surprising and delightful to see the > unexpected, e.g. > McCullin going to africa, covering the AIDS epidemic and bringing back - > beautiful pictures of people - in colour - albeit the obvious > misery and NOT > reproducing the average african- powerty/misery- in-B/W scheme. > Something that > gives these victims of photojournalism back their dignity. > Something that one > would NOT expect. Something that would let us ask: what is really going on > there? >