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Via eBay, I bought some 50's thru 70's era Chicago SunTimes vintage 8x10 file prints. Apparently, someone acquired their physical archives? The skill of photo
by ShabbyDoo 13y ago
Via eBay, I bought some 50's thru 70's era Chicago SunTimes vintage 8x10 file prints. Apparently, someone acquired their physical archives? The skill of photo journalists in those days was astounding. There were beautifully composed photos of the 1968 riots -- while people were rioting! I'm not suggesting that today's PJ's aren't as skilled, but it's certainly easier with a DSLR.
- zmitri 13y agoI very much agree. Photojournalism was it at peak in that era. There were tons of photoessay magazines around but they couldn't compete for ads with other forms of media and most of them shut down.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoI saw a museum exhibition a few years back of a famous Japanese war photographer in Vietnam (who was killed there). In addition to the usual blown up prints of his most famous images, they had contact sheets from his film rolls, and they really showed how incredibly skilled he was. From looking at the contact sheets, and comparing with the blown-up images, you could see that 95% of his shots were perfectly composed, well exposed, in focus, and there were almost no wasted shots at all—none of this "take multiple exposures and choose the best one" business, he just got it right the first time and moved on. While being shot at. I liked his work before seeing that exhibition, but I was in awe after it... [and of course while the equipment of the time (from the contact sheets, you could see it was 35mm film) wasn't all that bad, it was a bit primitive compared to what we have now....]