[Leica] Migrant father - Peter D.

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Thank you, Peter, for your interest in this picture and your very kind 
appreciation.
JM


Jean-Michel Mertz
Strasbourg

 
> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:49:45 +0000
> From: pdzwig at summaventures.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Migrant father : sorry, this is the genuine text!
> 
> Jean-Michel,
> 
> I think it does compare with the Lange picture at the very least at the 
> level of
> a documentary photo of  a kid "eyeing an uncertain future". In Lange's 
> photo
> it's the mother and you don't see the children's faces. Here it's the 
> child, and
> you don't see the father's.
> 
> You can argue about the technical aspects of which is better until 
> forever. But
> it remains an excellent picture.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 02/03/2014 16:51, Jean-Michel Mertz wrote:
> > Thank you Philippe, Jayanand, Geoff, Luis, Dr Ted, Tina, Ric, Steve, 
> > Douglas, Jay, Alan, Gerry, Peter, Jim, Nathan: I love your comments and 
> > appreciation, thanks for looking and responding! Sure, when the picture 
> > appeared on my screen in B&W (M8, summicron 35 asph. + lightroom + 
> > silvereffex) I couldn't help thinking of Dorothea Lange's 1936 series - 
> > the way the boy gazes into some vague and uncertain future, the dirt on 
> > his face, the comforting presence / arms of his father, the focus on his 
> > eyes ... I thought there was a slight similarity. Sorry to compare this 
> > to someone as famous as D. Lange! The difference is that my picture is 
> > absolutely spontaneous: this is a single picture of a single event! We 
> > met this migrant family in the South of France, on our way to Albi - 
> > there are still many such migrant families in Europe, traveling from 
> > place to place in their mobile homes or trailers. There's indeed a 
> > fierce controversy as to whether they should be asked to settle down or 
>  
>  tr
> >  avel back to Romania, their country of origin, supposedly. Well, 
> > anyway, our grand children played with their children and as things 
> > happen, we started talking, etc. and then one child jumped into his 
> > dad's arms and I grabbed my camera. That's the story. 
> > True, the B&W brings about some pathos that wasn't there at all at the 
> > start. Interesting thought about the way reality can be transformed once 
> > the camera has caught the picture!
> > 
> > Jean-Michel
> >  
> > 
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> Dr Peter Dzwig                                
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