Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Spider Martin
From: matt at kollarfoto.com (Matt Kollasch)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:07:17 +0400

Good story in the NYT about Spider Martin and his work in Selma, AL in
1965. I never heard of Spider till today. See the photo of a treed Spider
in the 6th photo of slide show to keep this dispatch on topic.  /matt


*"Those photos distilled the chaos into a series of ?legible dramas,? Mr.
Berger said: a state trooper pointing
<http://www.spidermartin.com/image-gallery/rxtx0c3nbgkjd4gn6gkdr6uzxvel9h>
toward
a row of marchers just before the moment of confrontation; John
Lewis falling
<http://teaching.clevelandhistory.org/files/2012/05/2.3.jpg> to police
clubs at the Pettus bridge; the wounded Amelia Boynton being lifted
<http://www.spidermartin.com/image-gallery/3rxim0w97tprdrv969hksmsf8vr3wd>to
her feet by fellow marchers.*

*In an unpublished memoir included in the archive, Mr. Martin describes
climbing trees or rickety church towers to get distinctive shots during the
successful five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, developing film in
makeshift roadside darkrooms and transmitting images through a hot-wired
telephone pole."*

http://bit.ly/spider_martin