I really enjoy reading John Berger but in this introduction to the book I didnt really find what he wasy talking about releveant to photography at all. It seemed more just bitching about Tyrannical Rulers, which yes I agree is not a good thing, but it just didnt really realte to taking pictures much for me.
Ch. 1: documentary debate: aesthetic or anaesthetic?
This was related to photography more i felt. The part that got my attention was when they were talking about Salgado's photos and how they go about it in the San Fransisco Museum of Modern art's catalog. "in hurried visits to scenes of despair or violence, they climb out of the plane or helicopoter, press the shutter release, explode the flash: they shoot and run." I think that is a great description of how some photographers might do things. They just are there to get a picture, there isnt really any kind of thought that goes into it cause they dont want to get to involved. Can we blam them? i dont think that the photographer should put their life in danger to get a good picture. You have to be safe. I'm sure others would disagree with me because there are always 2 sides to everything. But then again i cant speak from experience i dont take pictures like that. so i guess you would never know until you are in that situation what exactly you are going to do.
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