Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What's fascinating is that about a year or so ago he had said he wasn't ever going to war again, and was devoting the rest of his photographic days to shooting his garden and other pastoral scenes. (And some of those images are in this book) But then came the Bushing of Iraq, and word was McCullin had gone back to war, with black and white film. 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 Gerry Walden Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:33 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - War photographers and SPEAKING OF WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS I met Don a while back and he seems lost and disillusioned since he stopped doing war work. His Indian work is great, and his still lives are too, but he has lost the sparkle in many ways. The last chapter of his book 'Unreasonable Behaviour' is sad reading. Gerry bdcolen wrote: > There's a new 'don't miss it' book out - > Don McCullin, forward by Harold Evans, essay by Susan Sontag. A 295 page > monograph covering the life's work - thus far - of one of the world's > great photographers. 8.5 by 9", good reproduction, from Jonathan Cape, > London. $29.95. > > One of the most fascinating photos in the book is a shot of McCullin > himself, taken by Nick Wheeler during the battle for the Hue Citadel in > 1968. McCullin has a haunted look frighteningly similar to that on the > face of his famous image of the combat 'fatigued' Marine - a photo > featured in two parts on the front and back cover. > > For anyone interested in McCullin, war photography - or just > photography. > > (But be forewarned that in the photo of him in Vietnam McCullin is > clutching a Nikon F :-) ) > > 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 Oliver > Bryk > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:00 PM > To: Users Group Leica > Subject: [Leica] OT - War photographers > > > Peter Maass has an interesting piece about war photographers and > correspondents in the July 2003 issue of Outside magazine. I'm not a > subscriber and saw it only today in a waiting room. Oliver Bryk > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html