Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rubbish Roger. For instance, I downloaded the Napalm Girl foto last night and showed it to my wife and her visiting friend. Both of them are too young to have been exposed to the Vietnam war. They both said it was terrible to see frightened children running away from soldiers. They assumed it was from the ongoing Palastinian Israeli conflict. They supplied the missing details in the still photo (the notes before and the notes after) from the baggage of their personal experiences. There is nothing in that foto itself that even suggests that the children are fleeing from an airborn napalm attack. Its effect is really to illustrate (in a general way) the terror of a child. I use this foto as an example, only because Dave Fisher mentioned it in the same thread. To say that a black and white still foto is complete and needs no support is a remarkable example of wishful thinking. We live in a three dimensional world of colour and movement and smell etc. (Martin Howard). The viewer of a foto supplies the majority of the missing info. Alan > Från: Roger Beamon ... on a Still Photograph (snip snip) .. It is complete unto itself and requires > no further support!