On 4/6/2017 7:58 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:14 PM, William Robb
<anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote:
McCurry passes himself off as a photojournalist, Erwitt doesn't.
Erwitt did indeed "pass himself off" as a photojournalist, and still
does. That's according to Magnum Photos for who he was the president
for three years. "To this day he is for hire and continues to work
for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits."
Neither photographer (McCurry, Erwitt) wore two photographer hats at
the same time. I think that people are judging based on random
context-less photos which, when shown together, give the impression of
being created with a similar intent, but which clearly aren't.
Erwitt's advertising photos cannot be held to the same standards of
veracity as his PJ photos.
Same goes for McCurry who often wears a Personal Work hat.
There is still a definite difference between personal work, work for
hire by an ad agency, and work for hire by a hard news agency.
The Erwitt image of the boy with the baguettes was an advertising image,
I suppose one could say the same thing about the McCurry images that
seem to have landed him in hot water, after all, wars need positive
advertising as well, or else who would wage them?
But we have higher expectations than that.
Or perhaps we don't.
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