Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:13, B. D. Colen wrote: > Well, Feli, keep in mind that Robert Capa was exceedingly hip - not > suburban - but hip enough to hang out in Hollywood, be Ingrid Berman's > lover for a while, pal around with Hemmingway, etc. etc. He bounced > back and forth between wars and the Town and Country set.... ;-) True, but at least he knew how to frame a shot and I think if you dared to call "Papa" a hip poser to his face he would have told you to go perform an anatomically impossible act or done worse. ;-) I don't know, maybe I am blowing this out of proportion, but the mag just doesn't say anything. Lots of impersonal wide angle shots that say more "I was here" than "I was here and THIS happened to THIS person/people". Lots of Diane Arbus type shots of people lined up staring in to the camera like a GAP add or specimens at a entomology exhibit, all printed in over saturated colors. If you were looking for something like "The Country Doctor", it's not here. It just seems all over the map. More "art" photography than journalism, from an agency that made it's name as the gold standard in photojournalism. The print quality is well, iffy. Lots of the photos looked cropped. People may say "well, what the hell do you know. They are in Magnum and you're a hack amateur writing this on the LUG." Well, yes. I currently do not make a living as a photographer, but I don't think that automatically disqualifies me from saying that something is rotten in Denmark. ;-) Feli