Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/09

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Subject: [Leica] Specificity in Photojournalism
From: Afterswift at aol.com (Afterswift@aol.com)
Date: Sun Jan 9 00:56:28 2005
 
 
But the picture on the front page of The Times could only have been  
photographed now, and only on the devastated shores of the Indian Ocean. My  
colleague 
David House of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram says, "In this instance,  
covering life means covering death." The babies in their silent rows were as 
 real, 
and as specific, as the insane act of nature that murdered them. This  
picture 
was the story of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 - not the  truth, 
but a stand-in for the truth that will not leave the thoughts of those  who 
saw 
it. The Times was right to publish it. --Daniel Okrent