Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting to add to the thread of who supports photojournalists, at one point in his career Don McCullen (whom I very much admire) was doing ads for those strange looking SLRs that Olympus brought out at one time - - the ones that had a fixed zoom lens. They looked like some of the digital cameras around now. The tag line was: "Is this a real camera? If this is a real photo?" The picture was a gritty, very beautiful landscape taken by Don McCullen. Stuart Phillips - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 7:38 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] photojournalism fails to change the world Sad. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John Pakington Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:15 AM To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] photojournalism fails to change the world B.D wrote: 'I said that much as it pained me to say it, I would urge him to get the MA...Want to change the world, I said, you'll have a better chance having a real impact with an urban planning degree from MIT than you will being THE documentary photographer of your era. Sad, but true.' About a month ago I went to see Don McCullen speak at the Royal Geographic Society in London. At the end of his lecture, his conclusion was that in the many years of photographing the world's trouble spots and having his photos published in the nationals on a weekly basis, he didn't think that he had made a bit of difference. In fact he thinks that the world is a worse place now than it was when he started. He now shoots landscapes (funnily enough he didn't mention anything about the African AIDS project.) Johnnie - --------------------------------------------- Johnnie Pakington Camden London UK E: johnnie@bbpr.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html