Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks much for posting. I remember some of his photos, but had not read about him either. Ken On 2/16/2015 8:07 AM, Matt Kollasch wrote: > 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 *In an unpublished memoir included in the archive, Mr.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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information