Hi, Bob Walkden wrote:
> There's an interesting article here which touches on this question of > permission, use and re-use, and raises some of the same issues that people > have discussed with respect to Shel's photo: > http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/indexen.html Try http://zonezero.com/magazine/articles/jacobson/magnum1.html > The essay is by Colin Jacobson, who is one of the UK's leading photo editors. > He discusses Martin Parr's work used for very unflattering > advertisements, and has comments from David Hurn, Parr's colleague in > Magnum, and others. Very interesting article. Leaving aside values in photographs (I find my own feelings and beliefs on this subject are far too complex to have an easily atriculated response to the majority of the base thread) I found the following quote rather suprising, reference Martin Parr: > His stylistic approach has been widely imitated by contemporary photographers, > and is generally perceived to represent a rejection of the black and white > documentary > tradition passed down by magazines such as Picture Post and Life. I have always thought that his work is more of an extension of the documentary tradition. Photographers of the past might have used low-key to emphasise grimy, industrial landscapes, or high key to demostrate happy times. Martin uses colour, in a different way but to the same ends. mike
