RonPrice
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Some 4 months later, another famous photographer has come to my notice. I write about him as follows:
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PHOTOGRAPHY: DONALD MCCULLIN
Part 1:
Donald McCullin(1935-) was born in Finsbury Park, London, England. He is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.
You can read an interview with McCullin in The Observer(23/12/'12) entitled: 'Photojournalism has had it. It's all gone celebrity.' This veteran photographer discusses the violence of his early years, celebrity culture – and why he's off to a war zone at 77. A documentary of his life and work was released in January 2013 entitled McCullin. The film was nominated for two BAFTA awards. I viewed it here in Tasmania last night on 9/6/'14. I leave it to readers with the interest to access this doco.
Part 2:
McCullin's career in photography began in 1959 with a photograph he took of a local London gang which was published in The Observer. In 1959 I was in grade 10 in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe; I was in love with Susan Gregory and at least two other girls; I played on the Burlington All-Stars, a midget baseball team in Halton County; I joined the Baha'i Faith that year in the same week as the first episode of The Twilight Zone came out and introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television.
You can read McCullin's biography, his early life, family life, his selected works and the awards he has received at Wikipedia. "I grew up in total ignorance, poverty and bigotry," he said, "and this has been a burden for me throughout my life. There is still some poison that won't go away, as much as I try to drive it out."-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia and the TV doco McCullin.
Part 3:
"Photography for me is not looking,
it’s feeling.....If you can’t feel what
you’re looking at, then you will not
get others to feel anything when they
look at your pictures."[SUP]1 [/SUP] The same is
true of writing, Don, so much of the
game, the act, begins with feeling, &
then, of course, the mind must get in
on the process. But that problem of
guilt to which you refer troubles me
not, and this is perhaps because I am
not in direct contact with the world of
reality which you photograph & have
done so since as far back as 1959.
My journey also started in '59, just
about as unobtrusively as yours with
those photos you took of that gang.
[SUP]1[/SUP] Don McCullin, Wikipedia
Ron Price
9/6/'14.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: DONALD MCCULLIN
Part 1:
Donald McCullin(1935-) was born in Finsbury Park, London, England. He is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.
You can read an interview with McCullin in The Observer(23/12/'12) entitled: 'Photojournalism has had it. It's all gone celebrity.' This veteran photographer discusses the violence of his early years, celebrity culture – and why he's off to a war zone at 77. A documentary of his life and work was released in January 2013 entitled McCullin. The film was nominated for two BAFTA awards. I viewed it here in Tasmania last night on 9/6/'14. I leave it to readers with the interest to access this doco.
Part 2:
McCullin's career in photography began in 1959 with a photograph he took of a local London gang which was published in The Observer. In 1959 I was in grade 10 in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe; I was in love with Susan Gregory and at least two other girls; I played on the Burlington All-Stars, a midget baseball team in Halton County; I joined the Baha'i Faith that year in the same week as the first episode of The Twilight Zone came out and introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television.
You can read McCullin's biography, his early life, family life, his selected works and the awards he has received at Wikipedia. "I grew up in total ignorance, poverty and bigotry," he said, "and this has been a burden for me throughout my life. There is still some poison that won't go away, as much as I try to drive it out."-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia and the TV doco McCullin.
Part 3:
"Photography for me is not looking,
it’s feeling.....If you can’t feel what
you’re looking at, then you will not
get others to feel anything when they
look at your pictures."[SUP]1 [/SUP] The same is
true of writing, Don, so much of the
game, the act, begins with feeling, &
then, of course, the mind must get in
on the process. But that problem of
guilt to which you refer troubles me
not, and this is perhaps because I am
not in direct contact with the world of
reality which you photograph & have
done so since as far back as 1959.
My journey also started in '59, just
about as unobtrusively as yours with
those photos you took of that gang.
[SUP]1[/SUP] Don McCullin, Wikipedia
Ron Price
9/6/'14.
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