Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Rowell wrote: > > When I think HCB, I > think photographer. When I think Salgado, I think > documentor (Smith too). Absolutely. I really don't care whether he was a founder of Magnum, or that Cappa told him to call himself a photojournalist: HCB is/was not a photojournalist. He did a bit of photojournalism in his career, but, as Steve says, he was a photographer. Pure and simple. He is an artist who for a long period in his life used his camera as his paintbrush and people as his subjects. And, yes, he was heavilly influenced by the cubist movement. But a photojournalist? No way. B. D.