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Nov 02, 2006 18:27

I've spent a lot of today/this afternoon looking at the Lomography community.

I like the philosophy of point-and-shoot behind Lomography. I shall have to practise more with my ColourSplash.

And now that I've finished reading Robert Capa's book on photojournalism during WW2, I can get stuck in Julius Shulman's book on architectural photography.

lomography, photography, julius shulman, robert capa

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muddy November 2 2006, 10:17:49 UTC

Robert Capa - was he the guy who was with the first wave on Omaha beach only to have nearly all his photos destroyed by some idiot back in the lab in England?

mysterysong November 2 2006, 10:24:20 UTC

Yes! He took over 160 photos that day, and only 8 survived the lab in the end, and they ended up all blurry. Apparently they were the best photographs that had been seen in the war as well. He was very philosophical about it in his memoirs.

muddy November 2 2006, 10:33:03 UTC

Yeah - I just Wiki ed him and realised I did know him. His Spanish Civil War stuff comes up a bit as well - very iconic.

I am getting a bit worried about my 'bloke cred' - I used the words 'Sidney Nolan' in conversation earlier in the week and now I am talking famous photographers :P

mysterysong November 2 2006, 10:43:23 UTC

So you've seen his famous photo of the Spanish Loyalist getting shot? That one's pretty amazing, but there's another similar sort of one that almost had me in tears, of an Allied soldier shot in Paris.

muddy November 2 2006, 13:20:41 UTC

Yeah - back ages ago when I was failing Engineering they made us do all these other subjects so 'we could talk to people at dinner parties'. I did 'visual communication' one year.

I think that was when I first saw that picture in one of those classes.

I can remember last year reading some book on 9th Aust Div and there are all these photos of people just hanging around in groups getting their photos taken. Then you read the captions and it is explaining who each of them are and telling you how one of them was killed a month later and the man in the back died of wounds the next year fighting the Japanese.

THEN that ANZAC day I am at the march and realising that these were the people from the photos I was watching.

THAT freaked me a bit.

NOW stop googling Paris Hilton and study :P

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