| TimF |
| (Senior Member) |
| 29/12/2006 22:58 |
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Re: Time - photographs of the year 2006
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Unlike sex, i am not sure that war pictures sell particularly well. I think some war photographers are aware of this; Don McCullin at the Sunday Times could be a good example of these difficulties.
Some of Salgado's work on extreme poverty caused by war would not be exhibited never mind sold in his earlier days. So many photographs that show the pain of the world do not have a ready paying audience.
There used to be more mainstream outlets for such pictures in the Sunday supplements etc, but increasingly advertisers are calling the shots, and they don't want pictures of the kind of human misery that exists in reality to intrude upon the fantasy worlds they want their customers to imagine is the norm.
Maybe that's true of much of the public too? I couldn't say. It certainly isn't for me.