Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi B.D. It's not much better here when it comes to finding anything in general circulation. "eight photojournalism" isn't sold on the newsstands anywhere. I'm not sure how it is now, but Paris Match used to be the equivalent. It still exists but I expect that the content is far from being anything like it used to be. Another tendency happening on both sides of the pond seems to be that newspapers quit carrying a staff of photographers and turn to various pools of photographers for their photos instead. One paper here, Expressen, has traditionally won many awards for their photographic coverage through the years. Last year they fired all their photographers. The only people left in the photo department are the editors who buy pictures externally. Anyway, you said there were several small publications out there dedicated to or favoring photojournalism. I'd be happy to get info on any of them. >And, btw, while there was a lot of drech in Life, Smith was hardly the only >worldclass photographer who shot for Life in its glory days..... Yeah, I know. He was fairly instrumental, though, in turning the "reportage" into something of an art. My old teacher in journalism had a student that made it into Life before they were shut down, Sean Callahan. Smith had less than a positive reputation that seemed to hang on and get propagated even among those who never worked with him. Just to be on topic :) part of his bad reputation among editors was because he fought them to use 35mm instead of medium/large format, and Leicas at that :) Daniel _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html