Great photographers of reaction, revolt, protest, revolution and war

[Enoyarnam]

Dear all,

I recently came across a press-cutting in my archive of Susan Watkin and Tariq Ali's '1968: Marching in the Streets'. Beside it there was a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. from. his collection, 'Henri-Cartier-Bresson: A Propos de Paris'. A young woman is standing on the back of a bicycle. She holds aloft the tri-colour flag. The sunlight shines through it. She is looking slightly to the right. The flag drapped behind her. A white traffic line dissects the centre of the picture. 100 yeards in front are amassed the protesters. It is as if the picture was taken yesterday.

Which photographers, in your opinion, merit being regarded as great photographers of reaction, revolt, protest, revolution and war throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Why do thet merit inclusion in your personal canon?

 

[tomalophicon]

Philip Blenkinsop. Just look at his work and you will know.

 

[Enoyarnam]

Tomalophicon, hi. I've just had a look at Philip Blenkinsop's 'Extreme Asia' online page via the Digital Journalist website http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/blekinsop_01.html.

The pictures are very dark. Very extreme. In and of themselves they are the kind of pictures that are capable of giving the photographer some pretty rough nightmares. The scenes he documents and records are - for that very reason - very important. Thankyou for the info. He is new to me.

 

[emraphoto]

Koudelka I reckon

 

[Welsh_Italian]

Robert Capa - not so much for the d-day landing photos (which, although technically awful, do the job extremely well) but for the picture of US soldiers with a Royal Marine who was FOO for the guns of the ships (e.g., HMS Warspite) off-shore. I'm fairly sure it was at Salerno and cannot find it anywhere. For me, it's a great composition under (shall we say) difficult circumstances.

Can anyone find a copy on the web?

 

[Enoyarnam]

Why? Why? Why? Why Josef Koudelka? What makes Invasion 68 and his other work so important? On what basis is he being elevated above the work of others?

 

[emraphoto]

Why? Why? Why? Why Josef Koudelka? What makes Invasion 68 and his other work so important? On what basis is he being elevated above the work of others?

proximity.

not really elevating (a process i am loathe to do) so much as adding to the fray.

 

[emraphoto]

Susan Meiselas' work from Nicaragua sure impressed the hell out of me.

 

[emraphoto]

i wish, i wish. i have far too many visa stamps from countries that equal long, painful inquiries at the US border.