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I need to know the photographer of this photo, if anyone knows please tell me.
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>> Anonymous
"ac" did it. With his Canon Digital Rebel Xti
>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
no idea. I did hear the photog killed himself a few months after taking that shot.
>> Anonymous
>>81775
Do they have a site or anything I could look at?
>> Anonymous
>>81774
Kevin Carter.

>>81775
No, see, this is a *good* photograph.
>> Anonymous
Thank you /p/, I just found another hidden message in House of Leaves.
>> Anonymous
This is the saddest thing I've seen all day.
>> Anonymous
>>81777

It wasn't a couple months, it was a couple of years.

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." -Kevin Carter's suicide note
>> Anonymous
ethics behind photojournalism, anyone?
>> Anonymous
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/b/ knows no depths.
>> Anonymous
>>81852
Carter was unfairly demonized over all this. The truth was that he scared the vulture away after he shot the frame, the girl got up and walked off, and there was a relief food center fifty yards away. The girl had stopped to rest on her way to it.

The most you can fault him for is not picking her up and carrying her fifty yards. He didn't leave her to die.
>> Anonymous
>>81854
At least there was a time when true motivational shoops still existed.
>> Anonymous
>>81855

Maybe you could argue that pictures like this that tug the heart strings and show how bad it is also do good in reminding people of the suffering or encouraging aid.
>> Anonymous
>>81860
Then we just need to explain why are these types of photo's such a hit with the upper class audience.

Also theres a ton of photo sets of druggies, 3rd world misery, and old people portraits that just drive the younger upper class audience wild.

Is it because it tugs at their heart strings? It should also be noted that they donate the least percentage of their Net income to charity and non profit organizations. Where middle (Especially middle) and lower class donate up to 5x more on average.
>> Anonymous
>>81861

Exploitation and the upper class getting kicks out of the "gritty reality" of the art?
>> Anonymous
>>81860
I agree, but that wasn't the point of my post.
There was this big controversy around the photograph on the false premise basically that Carter just took a photograph and left her helpless. One columnist or something even called him "another vulture."

It's the same pigheaded mentality as the guy who wrote the article in the Village Voice accusing Jim Nachtwey of all of people of delighting in the carnage he's photographing and doing it all for attention and admiration.

>>81861
Anything billed as "art," whether it is or isn't, or anything else with a cachet, is a big hit with the upperclass. That doesn't invalidate whatever the original thing is.

A good photograph is a good photograph even if a bunch of tools swoon over it with some wine and cheese at a gallery opening. They won't get anything out of it, but other people will. A Porsche or Audi or something like that is a good car, even if 90% of people buying them do so to be all flashy.
>> Anonymous
carter won the pulitzer prize shortly after taking this photo. the reason he didn't pick her up was that journalists had been warned not to touch famine victims for fear of disease.

the guilt about this and his rampant drug use caused him to commit suicide. my parents knew his family quite well.
>> Anonymous
>>81855

He was bragging that he had to wait a long time before he got this shot and expressed disappointment that the vulture wouldn't open its wings for a more dramatic effect.
>> Anonymous
how the hell do you know?
i hardly doubt that this little girl is laying like this to REST. she is dying and she knows it.
so your telling me she got within fifty yards of help...after not eating or drinking for god knows how long... and STOPPED to rest???!!!!
bullshit.
im sure he had his reasons to not help her....
but dont make up some dumb ass story to tell yourself so that you can live with the fact that a photographer let a little girl die.
as i said im sure he had his reasons though
personally i dont think i would pick her up either without a has-mat suit.
>> Anonymous
>>81855
how the hell do you know?
i hardly doubt that this little girl is laying like this to REST. she is dying and she knows it.
so your telling me she got within fifty yards of help...after not eating or drinking for god knows how long... and STOPPED to rest???!!!!
bullshit.
im sure he had his reasons to not help her....
but dont make up some dumb ass story to tell yourself so that you can live with the fact that a photographer let a little girl die.
as i said im sure he had his reasons though
personally i dont think i would pick her up either without a has-mat suit.
>> Anonymous
Learn to delete posts, first of all, and second of all you two seem to be on the extremes. Just google Keven Carter for at least a factual analysis of the situation first.
>> Anonymous
"He heard a soft, high-pitched whimpering and saw a tiny girl trying to make her way to the feeding center. As he crouched to photograph her, a vulture landed in view. Careful not to disturb the bird, he positioned himself for the best possible image. He would later say he waited about 20 minutes, hoping the vulture would spread its wings. It did not, and after he took his photographs, he chased the bird away and watched as the little girl resumed her struggle. Afterward he sat under a tree, lit a cigarette, talked to God and cried."
>> Anonymous
Could you all STFU and quit bumbing this shit thread? Take your little debate about morality to neoseeker
>> Anonymous
>>81973
Photojournalistic ethics and morality are an interesting topic and appropriate for a photography board.

So, age.
>> Anonymous
>>81986
No.
>> Anonymous !RX7/134byQ
>>81994
Yes. Fuck off.

Personally, I don't think Carter's wrong for not helping the girl to the relief center. It seems futile to me.
>> Anonymous
sage
>> Anonymous
>>81999

oh lawd you terrible terrible person you! lol
>> Anonymous
i would had finished her off myself.
>> Anonymous
>>82070

that's because you have no soul.
>> DB
>>81781

I was about to post, "Navidson took it with his 35mm Nikon."
>> Anonymous
>>82098
...

I don't get it.
>> Anonymous
That photographer commited suicide a long time ago.
>> Anonymous
>>81855

I think he hated himself for not doing more - maybe the breaking point was when he got an award for photographing his friend's body when he was caught in crossfire.

He killed himself months later, in a spot near where he played as a child.
>> Anonymous
so i'm confused. did this guy kill himself?
>> Anonymous
>>82130
google. Fucking learn it you incompetent
>> Anonymous
>>82149

sarcasm about the number of times people mentioned that he killed himself. fucking learn to read, english genius.
>> Anonymous
>>82207
sarcasm doesnt come through very well with text.
>> Anonymous
>>82207

You fail at sarcasm. "HAY GUYS I DUN GET IT DID HE BECOME AN HERO?" would have worked better.
>> Anonymous
where can i find the Navidson picture?
yes i googled to no avail.
what i did find was locked to the public...some site for a library.