Re: [Leica]good article

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

BD

More than just a few of us are concerned about your
comments on an article that most of us, not living in
the Boston area, cannot see.  You are commenting
in  a partial vacuum.

Jerry

bdcolen wrote:

> Boy, Steven, if this ain't what makes for horse races! I was so appalled
> by that piece that I saved it, planning to write a Letter to the Editor,
> or something else in response. To me, that piece was a perfect example
> of someone who knows less than nothing about a subject pontificating on
> that subject. Did you notice that he said that what is so amazing about
> the famous Nick Ut and Eddie Adams photos was that you look at them and
> know that they are far to strong to have been shown on TV - when, in
> fact, film crews were present at both scenes, and both scene DID appear
> on T.V. He totally missed the point that still images have a power all
> their own, a power way beyond that of video, simply because they are
> STILL - we can take as much time as we want with them; the still image
> sinks in and stays with us, while the video/film flits by, and memory of
> it melds with all the other video/film clips.
>
> He also didn't mention the fact that this war has produced very very few
> memorable images - I've been wondering about precisely that fact. He
> also didn't discuss the appalling Pentagon staged "iconic moment" of the
> Sadam statue coming down with the flag over its face - turns out the
> Marine who planted the flag there has admitted to a Brit reporter that
> he was ordered to put the flag - a flag from the Pentagon on 9/11 -
> there, and the entire incident was staged.
>
> Also, and even more troubling,he failed to discuss the LA Times faked
> photo, and what the combination of digital photo technology and the
> pressure for iconic images holds for the future of war photography in
> particular, and all photojournalism in general.
>
> So bottom line - a really crappy piece...IMHO....Oh, and as for that
> photo he praised so? Of the two British Marines firing a rocket from
> behind a sand berm?...well, it's "dramatic," but that's about all it
> is...It could have been shot on a firing range in Arizona...and maybe it
> was, given all the media management of this war...:-)
>
> B. D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steven
> Alexander
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 2:26 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica]good article
>
> Very good IMHO article on photography, Boston Globe , Arts &
> Entertainment section; Shooting War by Mark Feeney.
>
> Happy snaps,
> Steven Alexander
>
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