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Concerned Photographers
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The pioneers
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The goals of the "Concerned Photographers"
were very ambitious.
Not only did they set out to mirror life's passing parade
and to lobby, through their pictures, for new laws to relieve
poverty and oppression, but they commited their lives to influencing
people's basic attitudes by raising moral and social awareness.
They hoped their photographs might end the desire to oppress
and exploit, that they might instil tolerance, respect and
dignity among men.
They were seeking to understand man, yet at the same time
they recorded man's inability to be human.
Thomas Pizer is a
multimedia designer working with "Flying Pixel" in Geneva.
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"It's
not easy always to stand aside and be unable to do anything
except record the suffering around one... The last day some
of the best ones die. But those still alive will soon forget."
Robert
Capa, Paris, France, 1944
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"A
stone became a world, a child was all children, a war was
all wars."
Ernst
Haas, Vienna, Austria, 1947
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"These two children are my children. During World War II,
I was severely wounded, and after two and a half years in
hospital, when I tried for the first time to make a photograph
again, I could barely load the camera. Yet I was determined
that this first photograph would contrast with war photography,
that it would speak an affirmation of life."
W. Eugene
Smith, USA, 1946
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