Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Salgado
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:51:43 -0400
References: <LOBBIECBAFKELHHMPMDNOELDCDAA.gerrywalden@cwcom.net>

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.

In reply to: Message from "Gerry Walden" <gerrywalden@cwcom.net> (RE: [Leica] Re:Salgado)