Mirror
Posted by SpikeJan 29
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall by Errol Morris.
Whether you love or hate Bush, this is a stunning piece of work.
The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Thomson Reuters. During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures — of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way.
It’s not just the photos, it’s the interviews with the photographers, what they have to say about their subject, about recording history …..
Some of the images in the article:
Yes a picture is worth a thousand words but the words that describe these photos are well worth your time to read.
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