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guycaruso
Citizen
Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 40
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 11:33 am: |     |
I guess we know which side of the war the world press was on.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040213/ids_photos_wl/r554265374.j pg |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6385
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:01 pm: | |
The side that asks what war does to children? |
guycaruso
Citizen
Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 41
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
Like Uday and Qsay |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 361
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:11 pm: | |
Not to be a dunce, but what's on that guy's head? |
Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1524
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 2:06 pm: | |
no caruso..why dont you enlighten us?
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
guycaruso
Citizen
Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 42
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 2:57 pm: | |
Little testy there, Duncan. I just took offense to the photo because it struck me as anti- American. Maybe that 4 year old can grow up in a free country now.
Why do you seem to like the photo? |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1964
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 2:59 pm: | |
I think you're reading too much into it. Maybe the guy was one of Saddam's prisoners, reunited with his son? Who knows? To me, it's a picture of a human moment. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 920
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 3:12 pm: | |
The story accompanying the photo said the judge commented that (paraphrasing) that it doesn't matter who the man is, nor who put the hood on his head.
Well.....I'd say it does. But that's just me -- human moment me. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1965
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 8:38 pm: | |
Why? It's a guy and his son. It's the ambiguity that makes it interesting. |
llama
Citizen
Username: Llama
Post Number: 423
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2004 - 7:28 am: | |
In order to understand better how we are perceived by muslim fundamentilists, you must imagine that in thier eyes we are a country of Janet Jacksons who blatently dis-regard their most sacred values for our own personal gain.
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Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1526
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2004 - 8:49 am: | |
testy..sure if thats how you want to define it. Your complete misunderstanding of photography as art is stunning.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
guycaruso
Citizen
Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 44
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 12:21 pm: | |
Sorry to respond after 3 days. This photo won an award from the World Press, which means it should be viewed for its news content. I think photography can be viewed as art. Did you see the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue? |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1985
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 12:36 pm: | |
I think World Press can set its own criteria and hand out its awards however it sees fit. Perhaps if their choices are not satisfactory, you should start your own award show. Goodness knows the world needs another. |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 245
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 1:16 pm: | |
A photojournalist would be insulted if you compare his/her work to art. |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 191
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 2:59 pm: | |
From CNN.COM:
A picture of a hooded Iraqi war prisoner holding his 4-year-old son at a U.S. detention camp, by Associated Press Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju, won the World Press Photo of the Year award Friday....
Frenchman Bouju, 42, spent nine weeks in Iraq in March and May of last year for the AP. He was embedded with the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, 3rd Brigade. An AP photographer since 1993, he won or shared Pulitzer prizes for work in Africa in 1995 and 1999....
The photo was made during a rare moment of humanity in a war zone, Bouju said, when a father who had been taken prisoner by American troops was allowed to hold his 4-year-old son who also was taken when the man was arrested.
The boy, Bouju said, was panicking and crying, so an American soldier cut the plastic handcuffs off.
"My little girl was four at the time and I couldn't help thinking what would she have thought in the same situation," he said. Bouju wasn't able to get the prisoner's name and doesn't know where he or the child is now.
The father and son featured in the image are sitting side-by-side behind coils of razor wire. The father has one hand over the boy's forehead and his other arm hangs loosely at the boy's waist. A small pair of sandals lies a few feet away in the sand....
Jim Colton of Sports Illustrated, one of nine renowned photographers and photo editors on the jury, said Bouju's photo was his instant choice of the 22 finalists.
"My immediate reaction was one of compassion," he said. In addition to the photo being newsworthy it "brings a new element, that of hope."
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Cowboy
Citizen
Username: Cowboy
Post Number: 378
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 3:04 pm: | |
The act of choosing a particular photograph to be used to represent an award or even a poster says much about that person or organization. Right tom? |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1990
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 3:45 pm: | |
It certainly does. What side do you think Jim Colton is on, he who finds in it an element of hope? And when the photographer speaks of the "moment of humanity," to me he's obviously referring to the kind treatment they were given by, yes, a U.S. soldier.
Can't imagine why you've got a problem with that...
unless the gold, silver, and bronze all go to pictures of the Saddam statue being pulled down. |
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