Pictures worth a 1000 words
Aug 5th 2009, 8:33 pm
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Pictures worth a 1000 words
Aug 5th 2009, 8:41 pm
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
Oh God/Allah yes...never a truer juxtaposition.
Shiva, is that @ the Pantheon in Paris?In front of Foucault's exhibition hall?
Shiva, is that @ the Pantheon in Paris?In front of Foucault's exhibition hall?
Aug 5th 2009, 8:52 pm
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Aug 5th 2009, 9:00 pm
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Aug 5th 2009, 9:57 pm
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
Extraordinary picture, with extraordinary story to accompany it............ 
This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Along with the award, he also received criticism worldwide, aptly stated by St. Petersburg Florida Times: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.”
His photograph made the world weep, but another tragedy was to follow. Two months after receiving the Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide. Superficial observers relate his suicide either to an inability to handle fame, or guilt for not intervening and helping the child in this photo.
This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Along with the award, he also received criticism worldwide, aptly stated by St. Petersburg Florida Times: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.”
His photograph made the world weep, but another tragedy was to follow. Two months after receiving the Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide. Superficial observers relate his suicide either to an inability to handle fame, or guilt for not intervening and helping the child in this photo.
Aug 6th 2009, 4:32 am
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
Extraordinary picture, with extraordinary story to accompany it............
This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Along with the award, he also received criticism worldwide, aptly stated by St. Petersburg Florida Times: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.”
His photograph made the world weep, but another tragedy was to follow. Two months after receiving the Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide. Superficial observers relate his suicide either to an inability to handle fame, or guilt for not intervening and helping the child in this photo.
This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Along with the award, he also received criticism worldwide, aptly stated by St. Petersburg Florida Times: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.”
His photograph made the world weep, but another tragedy was to follow. Two months after receiving the Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide. Superficial observers relate his suicide either to an inability to handle fame, or guilt for not intervening and helping the child in this photo.
Aug 6th 2009, 4:33 am
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
stone him...
Aug 6th 2009, 7:54 am
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
Extraordinary picture, with extraordinary story to accompany it............
This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Along with the award, he also received criticism worldwide, aptly stated by St. Petersburg Florida Times: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.”
His photograph made the world weep, but another tragedy was to follow. Two months after receiving the Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide. Superficial observers relate his suicide either to an inability to handle fame, or guilt for not intervening and helping the child in this photo.
This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Along with the award, he also received criticism worldwide, aptly stated by St. Petersburg Florida Times: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.”
His photograph made the world weep, but another tragedy was to follow. Two months after receiving the Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide. Superficial observers relate his suicide either to an inability to handle fame, or guilt for not intervening and helping the child in this photo.
Aug 6th 2009, 7:55 am
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Aug 6th 2009, 9:22 am
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
Yes - Carter had told friends that while in the Sudan he had been seeing children die at the rate of "about ten every hour". There's a good explanation of the background to this story somewhere - if I can find it, I'll post the link.
Aug 6th 2009, 9:46 am
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
Wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
Aug 6th 2009, 10:51 am
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Re: Pictures worth a 1000 words
I know of Kevin Carter because he was in the Bang Bang Club, which was a group of four photographic journalists that exposed some of the terrible injustices of South Africa's apartheid. There's a movie coming out about them shortly, called...the Bang Bang Club, of course. An old school friend of mine from SA has a tiny part in the movie.
Wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
Wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
thats a shame for him....