Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Allan, for once I have to agree with you pretty much 100%. R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Wafkowski" <allanwafkowski@mac.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:31 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Millimeters and Milliseconds > Peter, it's much more simple. Newspaper photography doesn't require > finesse. It just requires pictures. I've seen so many pictures of kids > with bloated bellies and flies, I forget who shot what, and why. I no > longer care. Newspaper photography has upgraded itself into > photojournalism, and along with the name change came a new-found worth. > They now think of themselves as changing the world through their images. > Two problems with that thought are: 1) Photojournalism has changed > almost nothing. (2 Photojournalists are just as apt to be jackasses as > bright, open human beings. What photojournalism has going for it is > that it has become a sacred cow. > > One would be hard pressed to find empirical proof that photojournalism > has had any profound effect on the world. One can find ample proof that > art has profoundly changed the world. One need only look to the > 1960s-1970s. The music, art, and literature played a profound role in > changing American and European culture. It wasn't politics, and it > wasn't newspaper photography. Five years of Disco changed the world more > than 90 years of photojournalism. > > Allan > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html