Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina; Early LIFE comes out of an even earlier progressivist period. Over the past 80 years what drove that type of sentiment for social concern has been systematically dismantled, virtually brick by brick. But it hasn't gone away, as it's systemically embedded in our culture, language, and manner of discourse. The documentary methodology of that era was driven by the available tools of the day, the portable movie camera and the hand held still camera. With that in mind there's no reason in not anticipating another evolutionary leap with the current technology. While much of it is really not that original, what it does have that's unique is that reporting happens in real time now at the popular level. The 'what is going on' is no longer under the sole purview of high capital intensive entities. Apart from access, the playing field has been leveled to the point that anyone is a documentarian. Case in point is the person who took the images of the caskets coming home from iraq. Slobodan Dimitrov http://sdimitrovphoto.com On May 31, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Slobodan - > > The interview was very interesting. It seems that even someone as > famous as Mary Ellen Mark has problems making a living doing > documentary photography. She has to depend on movie consultations > and print sales. It's both discouraging and encouraging at the > same time. She mentioned that there are no "Life" Magazines or any > other magazines currently featuring photographers' documentary > work. There was a letter in our Charlotte Observer asking them to > take out the Friday "Life Magazine" insert. They said that the > original "Life" contained interesting documentary photographs of > ordinary life that we didn't have the opportunity to see otherwise; > but the current insert is focused on celebrities and their lives > which have nothing to do with ordinary life and which we have > plenty of other opportunities to see on almost every television > channel, magazine and newspaper. I totally agree. > > Tina > > At 07:44 PM 5/31/2005, you wrote: > >> One of my very, very favorite photographers. A seminal portraitist >> who taught the rest of us that a wide angle lens could >> also be a portrait lens. In her case, notably the 60mm Distagon. >> Bob Salomon, formerly of HP Marketing, once told me she was a Rollei >> photographer. I still find that hard to believe. >> >> Slobodan Dimitrov >> http://sdimitrovphoto.com >> >> >> >> On May 31, 2005, at 8:31 AM, bill h wrote: >> >> >>> On radio right now and on line, repeated tonight, I think. >>> >>> http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2005/05/20050531_b_main.asp >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.workbookstock.com > http://www.newscom.com > http://www.americanphotojournalist.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >