Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry Walden wrote: > After all, if McCullins photographs are so banal why was he > stopped by the Ministry of Defence in the UK from covering the Falklands > crisis because he would send back images which would show it as it really > was instead of the controlled images that they desired for their political > ends. > > It is photojournalism that explains man to mankind and man to himself (not > my quote) and to belittle the work of such great people in this way is > disappointing in the extreme. > > Gerry > Gerry - I don't think anyone was suggesting that McCullin is not one of the outstanding photojournalists/documentary photographers of our time, who has repeatedly stunned people with the impact of his work. Rather, I think that some have suggested that, given what he has done in the past, some of the AIDS work seems quite flat. B. D.