Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] photojournalism fails to change the world
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:49:36 -0400

Get support where you can....

BTW, and not claiming to be worthy of putting new laces in McCullen's shoes
for him....I took the IS-3, the camera to which you refer, with me to
Somalia in '93 along with the OM4 I was then shooting with. It performed
beautifully and produced some terrific images. It has a lens with ED
elements, but, unfortunately, the lens is too slow to do any low light
work....But in Somalia, brightness, rather than lack of light, is the
problem...

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Stuart
Phillips
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:30 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] photojournalism fails to change the world


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


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