Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hm. I've always seen Salgado as an HCB epigone. Nachtwey as an McCullin epigone etc. . They are all pretty adapted to the market. Nothing really new. The ninth reproduction of cliches. I don't like Wolfgang Tillmann either - he has nothing to say. Maybe Anton Corbijn was a refreshment - until it developed into a style, manirism. Base line: one can only take pictures that are in one's head already. Therefore these pictures say more about the emptiness in these heads altogether. I think it would be more surprising and delightful to see the unexpected, e.g. McCullin going to africa, covering the AIDS epidemic and bringing back - beautiful pictures of people - in colour - albeit the obvious misery and NOT reproducing the average african- powerty/misery- in-B/W scheme. Something that gives these victims of photojournalism back their dignity. Something that one would NOT expect. Something that would let us ask: what is really going on there? - -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net