On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/6/2017 7:58 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:14 PM, William Robb >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> McCurry passes himself off as a photojournalist, Erwitt doesn't. >> >> >> Erwitt did indeed "pass himself off" as a photojournalist, and still >> does. That's according to Magnum Photos for who he was the president >> for three years. "To this day he is for hire and continues to work >> for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits." >> >> Neither photographer (McCurry, Erwitt) wore two photographer hats at >> the same time. I think that people are judging based on random >> context-less photos which, when shown together, give the impression of >> being created with a similar intent, but which clearly aren't. >> Erwitt's advertising photos cannot be held to the same standards of >> veracity as his PJ photos. >> >> Same goes for McCurry who often wears a Personal Work hat. >> > > There is still a definite difference between personal work, work for hire by > an ad agency, and work for hire by a hard news agency. > The Erwitt image of the boy with the baguettes was an advertising image, I > suppose one could say the same thing about the McCurry images that seem to > have landed him in hot water, after all, wars need positive advertising as > well, or else who would wage them? > But we have higher expectations than that. > Or perhaps we don't.
True. Speaking for my own cynical self, I don't expect anything but propaganda from all the parties in a war. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
