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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.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
