liam_maloney Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 This is great: http://www.magnuminmotion.com/tolstory/index.html Featured on the International Herald Tribune site. I'm a big fan of using audio with a slideshow to enhance the presentation. Photojournalism is moving in this direction very quickly, as newspapers look for web content that is less static. It's nice to see that Leica is still supporting projects like this. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squareframe Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 <br>sublime ... mandatory viewing. <br><br> thank you Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henricus Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Thanks Liam, what a wonderful slide show. After I watched it I asked myself, what the hell am I doing! <a href="http://www.magnuminmotion.com/tolstory/index.html">Magnum</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott squire nonfiction Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Thank you for the pointer. Stunning photography, of course. I agree with you also about it being good that Leica's on board with this kind of thing. The piece also hints at a really interesting conversation. But it is an awful implementation, really not fluent at all. All respect to Magnum and Leica and whoever else was involved with this, but this was like a 1999 quality multimedia presentation. How much better would it have been if the Towell soundbytes had been mixed with the wild sounds into one long track, and the slides laid over with nice transitions? I'm not a Flash author, but I know enough about the software to feel pretty confident that what I describe can be done, and possibly with not much more difficulty. It's a shame it wasn't in this case. I only stuck with this because I love Mr. Towell's photographs; the multimedia wasn't really value added for me, alas. I suppose that it comes down to money, and how much does something like this help Magnum or Leica to make? Sad to say, probably not that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanz Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 thanks for the link, it's inspiring to here a photographer speak about his work, knda brings it home for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squareframe Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 <br> the words and images rose far above the obesiant implementation .. as they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squareframe Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 obeisant .. isn't it amazing, the power of an image? a split-second of time that can bring you to tears, crush your chest in anguish, cause you to laugh till it hurts, or hurl you into action against an unjust force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastien_ardo Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 if anyone's interested, this story and more is currently shown in the Larry Towel exhibition at the fondation Henry Cartier-Bresson in Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastien_ardo Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 sorry, I meant Towell ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_clark Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Excellent stuff! I really like his Mennonites book - beautifully produced. Someone who takes great photos and talks a lot of sense in a straightforward and pithy way. I found the mix of excellent content and presentation better than anything I've seen on the web so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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