[Leica] modern photoreportage?

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Well - the New Journalism was allot of people - Hunter Thompson did a book
on the Hells Angels - and then you had Tom Wolf, Gay Talese, Jimmy Breslin,
and on and on....You may be thinking of Danny Lyons, who did an amazing book
called Bike Riders. The most iconic image from that is of a biker on a
bridge....


On 1/11/08 3:18 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:

> i don't get the impression that they're posed in the sense of "staged"
> -- and i don't really have a problem with a type of doccumentary
> photography that uses "posed" images either purists will no doubt
> complain, but i think there's room for a division where a doccumentary
> photographer can say "let me take a portrait of you and bob in your
> room" 
> 
> the photographer can never erase themselves from the scene, and the
> problems that arrise, eithically and otherwise if a photographer says
> "call me next time you're going shoot up" is something that i think each
> photographer must deal with individually (whether or not they'd make a
> request like that) -- are you causing someone to do something they
> wouldn't do? yes, and no.
> 
> but this is nothing new -- bias begins even before you pick up a camera,
> it begins with what you decided to photograph, and there's bias and
> influence in every step after that -- from how to light it to what
> photos eventually get printed.
> 
> for what it's worth, i think these images are a real bang-up job.
> they're amazing. though nan goldin probably wants some royalties.
> 
> and all the more kudos to her for using a leica.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> p.s. who's that guy who "invented" -- what did he call it? "new
> journalism"? where you live with the people you're writing about -- he
> did that book called "the bike riders"...
> 
> 
> 
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