Rob Brigham posted, among other things: > > I actually quite like many of the shots in Doug's link though... > > Then again I am more into "nice" pics than reportage/docupics so I guess > I would, wouldn't I? >
I liked the pics Doug shared, too. Especially with the "relative lack" of reportage/documentary photos -- Yesterday my copy of "News Photographer" arrived, with the Best of Photojournalism 2003 photos contained therein. War, war, war, plague, plague, war, hard times -- Seemed to me an even more depressing collection of photographs than usual. This group of pics (that Doug shared) was a nice little antidote. One other depressing point about the News Photographer collection too -- so very many images with muddy blotchy shadows, even muddy, blotchy midtones. Seems another drawback to digital taking over the press photogs' kit: the images are technically ghastly. But perhaps in just a little more time, those problems will disappear. Doubtful we can say the same about wars and plagues and Man's Inhumanity To Man.
