A couple of days back I posted here that the photojournalism world had lost Eddie Adams, a well-respected photojournalist, to Lou Gehrig's Disease.
I said, “… the photograph you see below by Eddie Adams is considered an epochal moment in the history of geopolitical events. It's a photograph of Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan of South Vietnam executing a suspected Vietcong prisoner.” That is what is conventionally believed in the media, among academics and even photojournalists. But David D. Perlmutter, in an article for Editor & Publisher debunks the myth about that image changing world history.
While I would like to say that I stand corrected, our perceptions are what they are. Which images today will stand the test of time and shake our perceptions in the future?
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Great link. Debate aside, I was gratified to finally understand that the photograph and film reel were taken at the same time by two different people. I had thought that the photograph was merely a still from the reel and was always confused about the discussion re:Adams.
I saw the reel in The Weatherman Underground, an amazingly interesting documentary, and I wonder if the more important effect was on a radicalized minority. We should not always consider averages so much as various modes of thinking. . .they need not always be populated by large numbers of adherents in order to be historically or politically significant.
Great link. Debate aside, I was gratified to finally understand that the photograph and film reel were taken at the same time by two different people. I had thought that the photograph was merely a still from the reel and was always confused about the discussion re:Adams.
I saw the reel in The Weatherman Underground, an amazingly interesting documentary, and I wonder if the more important effect was on a radicalized minority. We should not always consider averages so much as various modes of thinking. . .they need not always be populated by large numbers of adherents in order to be historically or politically significant.