You're not alone in this Happy Exile. Many people have said the same thing.I went to a talk by Steve McCurry and was a bit disappointed by his methods, while appreciating his honesty. There's no denying the images are incredible, but some of his very striking more candid looking photos are basically set up and planned which diminished them a bit for me - I think it was this one he described the process and it was pretty much a choreographed and constructed shot almost like it was done to a marketing brief, not the travel reportage I'd always interpreted it as. I had him on a similar level to Sebastio Salgado, Don McCullin, James Nachtwey for caputring the moment etc until that talk but can't quite look at his photos the same anymore.
As was I - to my shame.Thanks.
I was totally unaware of that story.
Weren't a lot of those faked?
Weren't a lot of those faked?
And one small moan: I was disappointed to see that the iconic photo of Phan Ti Kim Puc (sp. the Vietnamese child burned by napalm) was blurred. That was rather the whole point of the picture: the screaming naked burnt child. Yes it was horrific, but it doesn't have nearly the same impact when the focal point of the picture is now just a grey blob.
Ahh good. (well not 'good' but you know what I mean). I missed that and only saw the other one with the 'blurry' bit.Post #16 of this very thread...
A very powerful image but so hard to give a thumbs up.An image by British photographer Tom Stoddart. A Sudanese man takes away a grain sac from a starving child.View attachment 190972