Thursday, April 8, 2010

Robert Capa famously advised, "If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough". I tried photographing the SkySong tent with a wide angle lens but the images lacked any immediacy or sense of the tension and scope of the structure. I far prefer this:


Robert Capa was a war photographer, starting his career in the Spanish Civil war and ending it abruptly in Vietnam. When it comes to war photographers, he defined the species; delightfully even to the extent of defining himself; he was born Endre Friedmann in Hungary, but changed his name and billed himself as a famous American war photographer before anyone knew such an animal existed.

I wander safely back to my hotel, getting close by virtue of my 300mm lens. Close still counts, however you get there.

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