A couple of weeks ago I came across the graphic images of bodies littering the landscape in Bucha, Ukraine, a suburb a few miles west of Kyiv. Bucha was the latest example of Russia’s barbarity in this war, but one of the first things I thought of was Jonestown.
In November 1978, Time magazine sent me to that remote settlement in Guyana to check reports that Representative Leo Ryan, a California Democrat, had been killed there while investigating allegations that a group, a cult really, called the People’s Temple was holding people against their will.… Seguir leyendo »
Prise à Gaza, l’image du Suédois Paul Hansen, photo de l’année 2013 du prix World Press Photo, montre une foule pleurant deux enfants palestiniens tués par une bombe israélienne. Elle semble conforme aux canons du photojournalisme. Mais les couleurs désaturées de l’image, telle qu’elle a été soumise au jury, soulignant son côté cinématographique, suscitent des critiques. Si la retouche a toujours existé en photographie pour rendre les images plus lisibles, elle a été facilitée par l’arrivée du numérique, au point que certains rehaussent systématiquement les couleurs et les contrastes. Teintes fluo et cieux d’orage, plus esthétiques et dramatiques, se sont multipliés.… Seguir leyendo »
A picture, the old saying goes, is worth a thousand words. Yet photography – especially the reportage variety – is said to be losing its allure. Since 2010, several photographers have voiced concerns about the future of photojournalism, citing a crisis of confidence, weak support within the media industry worldwide, technological change and visual overload.
The American photographer Eros Hoagland divulged recently on CNN: “I don’t believe photojournalism is a very important job. My pictures and the pictures of my colleagues, they don’t really change anything. So let’s not pretend they do.” Photographers Patrick Chauvel and Don McCullin expressed a similar view during a panel discussion in 2013.… Seguir leyendo »
Federico Borrell García, a young Republican militiaman in the Spanish civil war, died, it now seems certain, on September 5 1936, shot by Francoist rebels on a hillside in Cerro Muriano near Cordoba.
His death might have gone unremarked, except that the image of that moment was celebrated for 40 years as one of the most famous war photographs of the 20th century. It was not Borrell's name that was famous - his identity was established only relatively recently - but that of Robert Capa, whose reputation was made by the photograph. Then, in 1975, came the suggestion that Capa had faked the picture.… Seguir leyendo »
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