[Leica] Editing

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

I agree with your implicit point wholeheartedly except to suggest that
typically such a train would go much more slowly than you account for, in
order to allow mourners to see it and experience its passing.

This whole discussion has pitted against each other two ways of creating
both of which are valid: in writing, for instance, one who writes quickly
and abundantly but needs much editing and wholesale re-writing after the
first draft; and the writer who boils down and compresses and pays very
strict attention to the shape and sound and grace of the sentences, and
needs little editing but takes year s and years to finish a book.

The argument made me think, again, of Garry Winogrand, driving around taking
pictures out the car window. And, opposingly, of Eugene Smith, sitting in
the window of his Sixth Ave loft, for thirty hours in the winter, sitting
sometimes without shooting for twenty minutes then taking one exposure -
just one.

It all works, as long as the artist is working.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at 
concentric.net>wrote:

> Not being one to let a thread drift off alone and forgotten, I'll add
> to it the following from the Magnum site, picked up a few minutes ago
> from their Twitter feed:
>
> "On June 5th, 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles as
> he campaigned for the presidential nomination. Kennedy's body was
> flown to New York City for a memorial service at St. Patrick?s
> Cathedral and then carried by train from New York to Washington D.C.
> for burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of
> mourners lined the railway tracks to pay their final respects to
> Kennedy. On board the train was Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, on
> assignment for LOOK Magazine. From inside the train, Fusco took some
> 2000 pictures of the mourners - black, white, rich, poor, in large
> groups and on their own. The resulting images are one of the most
> powerful and affecting series of photographs ever taken. This
> commemorative edition of 20 images was printed in 2008 on the occasion
> of the 40th anniversary of Kennedy?s assassination."
>
> http://events.magnumphotos.com/exhibition/rfk-funeral-train-rediscovered
>
> That would be 2000 images shot in how many hours it took the train to
> make that journey?  4 or 5?  Edited down to 20.
>
> --Bob
>
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