Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> What's fascinating is that about a year or so ago he had said he wasn't > ever going to war again, and was devoting the rest of his photographic > days to shooting his garden and other pastoral scenes. (And some of > those images are in this book) But then came the Bushing of Iraq, and > word was McCullin had gone back to war, with black and white film. I think he spent time with the Kurds, who he had photographed before. I heard from someone who had breakfast with him a few times in Iraq that he felt like he couldn't come back with the sort of images he had done from previous wars. He also apparently felt he was getting a bit old to get in the middle of things.... he's got to be what 68? 70? (and on his third wife - Marilyn Bridges and has a new child...) tim PS - I think that book is a re-print/new edition. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html