Hi, [...] > So do > people not want a reflection of reality, should we not record war images, > poverty or other things that remind us of a part of the real world? > Photographs can make you happy, persuade you to buy things, promote a way of > life or an image, but the flip side shows us all that is bad equally well. > Do we ignore this genre and bin the negatives and delete the digital images? > Or do we live with the images as a reminder of the past and present and hope > they make a contribution to changing the future?
[...] it's a bit of a stretch to generalise from discussion about one particular photograph to the whole subject of professional photojournalism. Scroll to the rightmost photos to see what things were like in the relatively recent past in London, and still are in many places: http://www.hamiltonsgallery.com/photographers/mccullin/mcculleuropean.html This unusual layout includes some recent photos by McCullin (mouseover the photos to see credits and captions). Some people might find some of the pictures disturbing: http://www.fotografiafestival.it/2004/html/IT/dura_bellezza.htm -- Cheers, Bob
