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Concerned Photographers
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this issue and the next, Red Cross Red Crescent features
a selection of images tracing the evolution of documentary photography
over more than half a century. |
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The photographers
Robert Capa and George Rodger,
Naples, Italy, 1943 |
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The last
days of Kuomintang Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peking, China, 1949
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The Luftwaffe
bombers fly over Bilbao Robert Capa, Spain, 1936
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The period between
the 1930s and 1950s saw the emergence of an elite group of
documentary photographers who shared the belief that a photograph
can convey a strong humanist message and provoke an active
social response. The names of these young reporters were David
Seymour (Chim), Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Ernst
Haas, Philip Jones Griffiths, George Rodger and W. Eugene
Smith. Collectively, they were called the "Concerned Photographers".
Their professional partnership evolved into the organization
known today as Magnum Photos, Inc.
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"A baby was found with its head under a rock. Its head was
lopsided and its eyes were masses of pus. Unfortunately, it
was alive. We hoped that it would die... and each time I pressed
the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with
the hope that the pictures might survive through the years,
with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men
in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.
"Know that
these people of the pictures were my family - no matter how
often they reflected the tortured features of another race.
Accident of birth, accident of place - the bloody dying child
I held momentarily while the life-fluid seeped through my
shirt and burned my heart - that child was my child."
W. Eugene
Smith, Saipan, 1944
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