Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excellent points all around. I put scare quotes around the term "collateral damage" just because some might find it an offensive euphemism for "dead innocent civilians." This wasn't meant to criticise Anderson choice of subject - just a segway to a comparison with Seymour. My point wasn't necessarily to bust Anderson's chops; I don't know his other work, and he's very likely a fine photographer. I was just surprised at the quality of this series of snaps. Scott B. D. Colen wrote: >Comparison, Scott, is always fair, if those being compared are playing on >the 'same field.' Here you're comparing professional photographers covering >war and its aftermath - so if Nachtwey is the modern standard setter, he's >the one against whom other professionals should be judged. > >That said - consider that what you're seeing of Capa and Chim's work is >their absolute best, culled, reculled, judged, and reculled, over the past >60 years; what you're seeing of Anderson's work are probably the images he >edited and transmitted to the syndicate while on the ground in a war zone - >and that makes a huge difference. First off, we are all our own absolute >worst editors; second, it's one thing for a curator to go through work that >was shot 50 years ago and dispassionately choose the best x hundred images >from thousands and thousands, and it's another thing for a photographer on >the ground, with bombs falling, to decide what 50 images to send over the >Sat phone. > >None of this is to disagree with your judgment, I'm simply trying to refine >the discussion a bit. > >Oh, one last point - most of Capa and Chim's work was not of combat, but of >collateral damage. >B. D. > > > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)