Friday 8 May 2009

Any times a person makes a film he is creating an argument or that what i read from john burgers book, i might have to reread this chapter when i get home.

These are some pics from English photographer Larry Burrows, who went to vietnam and embedded with some us marines there, his photos are different from the films i have seen representing this war, Apocolypes now, platoon, Born on the fourth of july, Deer hunter, it seems more documentary and clear without filters or focus, a certain kinda of truth which is different from the films??? maybe this is where the difference between film and picture becomes interesting, as I learnt from the lecture series, and film tells a narrative but a picture doesn't explicably, we have to film in the before and afters, and even with subtle pictures, there can always be an argument the photographer is presenting with us, this is where "context" comes in handy












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