Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Photos and wars - WWII - Capa's Dying Soldier; Capa's surviving Dday shots; George Roger's Blitz rescue images; Gene Smith's GI's holding dead baby on Pacific island...Post Hiroshima devastation photos...First concentration camp liberation photos...Raising of flag on Iwo Korea - As Ted said, David Douglas Duncan's close up images of tired, burned out Marines... Vietnam - Malcolm Browne's burning monks; Nick Ut's napalmed girl; Eddie Adams General Loan executing VC prisoner; GI's photos of results of Mai Lai massacre; Larry Burrow's color shot of wounded GIs awaiting evacuation; Larry Burrow's b&w of anguished crew chief with dead door gunner at his feet... Rwanda - James Nachtwey of man with machete scar across head and face... Gulf War I - Incinerated Iraqi; Turnley photo of GI just realizing that body bag he's sitting next to holds his best friend - Palestinian-Israeli conflict...they all run together.... 'War on Terror'.. Nachtwey 9/11 portfolio - Firemen raising flag in WTC wreckage... Iraqi Invasion.... ?? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 7:32 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] OT- War Photography No, what happened one mid-level Associated Press photo editor decided to decide for all those photo editors. It's true most would not have thought the photo passed the corn flake test (do people want to see it while eating their corn flakes in the morning?) but they each should have been given the chance to show it. And by the time it did hit distribution, it was a bit old. It was a tough image, but I would have run it. I did run a body photo once in my career as a newspaper photo editor. It was a man who killed a police officer and shot three other people before being shot in the head himself (By an amazing shot from 75 yards with a 9-mm handgun by a very lucky police officer - the perp. had a hunting rifle!). We ran the photo small on the front page so that most detail was obscured by distance and the dark (police officers shining their flashlights on him) and then much larger inside in black and white. The front page had a warning about looking inside the paper. A few days later we asked our readers if we made the right decision (the executive editor left the decision up to me in the end) and we got over 225 emails and only one was in the negative. I even got a very nice email from a Sheriff in Montana telling me I did the right thing. But most of the time, bodies are off limits. On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:16 PM, RUBEN BLĘDEL wrote: > The very picture from the first Iraq war with a burnt Iraq soldier > dead trying to get out of the amoured truck was shown in an early 90 > issue of American Photo and i recall it very well - shocking image ! > It was not banned but the newspapers did not want to print it because > of its very strong impact - Eric Carlsbad, CA A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers, and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - -- 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