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Cupids arrow with a twist... :thumbup:Not getting much love for this one, but I thought it was a little bit clever...
This Way To Love by michael_toye, on Flickr
Some of them are very sad,and make me realise how luck I am(We are..) to own Leica's etc..Hi Dave,
I have mixed feelings looking at your images, some I like a lot, the last two I dont feel compfortable looking at because I feel like someone peeping into the privacy of people.
I'm afraid you would as well have mixed feelings when visiting collections of pictures in the most reputable museums around the world or having a look at books about the history of photography as an art form, let alone at all those most educational pictures Magnum photographers have provided us with covering a wide variety of places and times and particularly revealing not just sunshine and roses.Hi Dave,
I have mixed feelings looking at your images, some I like a lot, the last two I dont feel compfortable looking at because I feel like someone peeping into the privacy of people.
I don't build my opinion and feeling based on the question if images hang in a well reputated museum or if they are posted in the internet.I'm afraid you would as well have mixed feelings when visiting collections of pictures in the most reputable museums around the world or having a look at books about the history of photography as an art form, let alone at all those most educational pictures Magnum photographers have provided us with covering a wide variety of places and times and particularly revealing not just sunshine and roses.
I think we have to give big thanks to Dave for sharing those pictures from his country in those really hard times, pictures that give us an authentic impression of the people/children who live there and have to overcome manifold difficulties.
Is this a new Leica body? :wtf:Tonight in Zurich at the opening of a new Leica Store in Zurich. It was announced in "Leica Rumors", so I thought I'd stop by
At first: I concede we're debating a serious concern. For me there's one major criterium regarding the matter in question: Are the personal rights of the portrayed subject preserved or are the offended in any respect? And I don't perceive any evidence for the latter, and particularly no indication, that Dave in those two pictures is misusing the visualised situation for his own ends. Indeed, quite on the contrary, his whole work is a striking proof, that he particularly is going to bat for the portrayed people, especially the children. So for my part, I don't share the posted objections at all.I don't build my opinion and feeling based on the question if images hang in a well reputated museum or if they are posted in the internet.
I like some of Daves images a lot but if I look at the last two I get the feeling that if I was the father of those kids I would not want to have those images spread. I also did not criticize him posting them, I just expressed what I felt when looking at them. If you feel different its your good right, you don't need to be afraid about my feelings by the way.
Its not the fact that I would prefer looking at "sunshine and roses", I just don't like images so much where people are shot" from behind, or when they are sleeping and don't know they are photographed or even when they try to hide their face behind a newspaper. I think you can show social problems without "scratching" (don't know if its the right word) the dignity of the people in the image. That's all.
If those were your kids, would you want the images spread over the internet? (I am only talking about the last two, specially the one where the kid hides the face with the newspaper.
Agreed. And not only regarding photo-journalism, but also e.g. the artworks of William Eggleston and other contemporary artists ...(...)
in agreement here, and try for that as well; but this opens a huge debate from photo-journalism to paparazzi, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Weegee, Capa, Erwitt, Strand come to mind, etc.