Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, one of my favorites was a pic of the pro Hezbollah rally. The other fave of the shattered pics was a close shot as well. Scott Walt Johnson wrote: > Scott > > [snip] defined. Go back and look at more of Anderson's work. There are > some images of crazies waving Hezbollah flags and pistols on the > streets of South Lebanon. Right in the middle of it all is our little > white boy from Canada? Excuse me while I go change my underwear. > > See you on the West Bank > > Walt > > > > > > Scott McLoughlin wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)