Above photo (George Abdaladze/AP) was captioned "A woman lies near apartments damaged by a Russian strike in Gori, Georgia. Neighbors helped her," in the L. A. Times. I. e., it was thought so horrifying that they didn't want you to think that George Abdaladze was a heartless bastard who was snapping when he should have been helping. Gori's other claim to fame? It's Stalin's birthplace.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
War & Violence Update, w/ Just a Pinch of Nihilism & Hatred Tossed In
Things perhaps improving in Zimbabwe, although until Mugabe is out on his ass (Or just plain dead; he's 84, why's he waiting?) good results can't be expected. And we question Mbeki's impartiality. Fortunately for those dedicated to nihilism (And what else is realistically possible, hope-seekers?) humanoids are at it somewhere else in the world, w/ a real shooting, tanks, aircraft, indiscriminate bombing, soldiers, guns kind of war. The Russian Empire is jealous of the Chinese Empire's world-wide attention from the Olympic Games, & has decided to steal some of the opening ceremony thunder by standing up for the rights of Russian Imperial subjects in a backwater called South Ossetia, where said subjects are allegedly being threatened by Georgians. (Bush fans? WTF?) Or something. Whatever the problem is, we all know it can be solved by force. Might makes right, or at least gets to write the history books from which the human species never seems to learn.Above photo (George Abdaladze/AP) was captioned "A woman lies near apartments damaged by a Russian strike in Gori, Georgia. Neighbors helped her," in the L. A. Times. I. e., it was thought so horrifying that they didn't want you to think that George Abdaladze was a heartless bastard who was snapping when he should have been helping. Gori's other claim to fame? It's Stalin's birthplace.
Above photo (George Abdaladze/AP) was captioned "A woman lies near apartments damaged by a Russian strike in Gori, Georgia. Neighbors helped her," in the L. A. Times. I. e., it was thought so horrifying that they didn't want you to think that George Abdaladze was a heartless bastard who was snapping when he should have been helping. Gori's other claim to fame? It's Stalin's birthplace.
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It must be a very difficult place to put your head, being a photojournalist in wartime. It's important these images be recorded, and important we are shown them. OTOH, how could someone be so heartless to abandon a person in distress like that? No one who's not there knows the story - perhaps it was a shot from a telephoto lens, he was actually in no position to approach her?
I've also read of other people - artists, photographers, etc. - who find that they are able to retreat from their own suffering or fear by putting the world at a distance through a viewfinder. Something like the apochryphal story of Monet at the death-bed of a loved one, finding himself thinking of what pigments to paint the shadows of her face as she dies.
g - dovestoday
From The Editor:
Didn't think the photog was at fault, but it seemed a good indication of how horrible the Times, at least, thought the picture was. We just noticed that the fishwrapper cropped the bottom of the shot, not revealing the subject's legs, so it didn't look quite as awful on the front page.
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