Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: Allan Wafkowski <allanwafkowski@mac.com> wrote (snip): >>> One would be hard pressed to find empirical proof that photojournalism >>> has had any profound effect on the world. One can find ample proof that >>> art has profoundly changed the world. One need only look to the >>> 1960s-1970s. The music, art, and literature played a profound role in >>> changing American and European culture. It wasn't politics, and it >>> wasn't newspaper photography. Five years of Disco changed the world >>> more >>> than 90 years of photojournalism. The difference in timing of the two World Trade Center kamikaze's was thought to be planned for maximum press coverage of the second plane. I'd say that shows a worldwide belief in the impact and power of the press and photojournalism. We can all immediately describe the now iconic still photos such as the 'flag raising firemen', the bodies of victims jumping from the towers and the little girl waving an American flag on her father's shoulders. It should be safe to say the events documented on and after Sept.11th, 2001, in still photojournalism, have changed and will continue to change the world! I'm sure others can site examples just as obvious as this! I'm only 32, but I have read that Eddie Adam's photo of the 'Saigon street execution', Nick Ut's image of a girl running screaming after being naplamed, and Phillip Jones Griffith's book 'Vietnam,Inc.' all had enormous impact on history, politics and America's involvment in Vietnam! Just a few of the top of my head- Andrew - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html