vic_. Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 This picture, #16, from the New Yorker photo essay is the one that Secretary of State, General Colin Powell referred to last weekend in his famous interview with Tom Brokaw. He stared at it for an hour, and one wonders about all the thoughts that went on in his mind. http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/slideshow_080929_platon?slide=16#showHeader Pictures can have that effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Thank you, Vic. It is a heavy photo, and it did inspire a serious man to reflect upon the status of affairs in this nation. Secretary Powell is still talking about that photo: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/opinion/22dowd.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 More "New Yorker" photos, also by Platon as part of the same military series, are here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/slideshow_080929_platon?viewall=true#showHeader Audio of an interview with Platon is here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/080929on_audio_platon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Everyone's skin is dark and gritty in those photos, which I think is a key part of unifying this gallery of photos into a whole, and providing an emotional impact. They aren't prettied up, indeed the opposite a bit. I'm curious how? Just printed dark and contrasty? Or is he using color filters chosen to emphasize skin blemishes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torben_daltoft Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Is this a Leica shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_macoustra Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Dear Torben,and everyone else,get hold of a copy of Somme Mud by E.P.F.Lynch,a W.W.1 vet. It is a auto- biographical novel about life in the trenches of the Somme. Absolutely nothing glamorous about it,men and animals blown apart by shrapnel, mown down by machine guns. And still we have not learned a thing.They were shot with a CANNON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torben_daltoft Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 What is a CANNON? And who are you to tell me the books I should buy? And on the LEICA Forum (sic!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John G. Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Another good book about the trenches in WWI is Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John G. Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 and THE GOOD SOLDIER. Alfred Novotny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milbourn Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Also, "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Diary of an Infantryman". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 That particular photo seems a bit cloying and forced to me. But if it has a profound effect on any viewer, it succeeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 >>And who are you to tell me the books I should buy? << Hmm. Looks like displacement to me. Don't like the message, shoot the messenger, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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