Tag: Don McCullin

  • THE TRI-X FACTOR

    The Tri-X factor Kodak’s Tri-X is the film the great photographers love. Anton Corbijn, Don McCullin and Sebastião Salgado tell Bryan Appleyard why via 1843: http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/features/bryan-appleyard/tri-x-factor?page=full Kodak’s Tri-X is the film the great photographers love. Anton Corbijn, Don McCullin and Sebastião Salgado tell Bryan Appleyard why

  • ‘Forget foreign conflicts, chronicle Britain’ says war photographer Don McCullin

    ‘Forget foreign conflicts, chronicle Britain’ says war photographer Don McCullin

    ‘Forget foreign conflicts, chronicle Britain’ says war Celebrated war photographer urges next generation to record UK’s ‘social wars’ via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/forget-foreign-conflicts-chronicle-britain-says-war-photographer-don-mccullin-8947692.html War photographer Don McCullin has called on the next generation of snappers to cover the poorest communities in Britain in an effort to stop them becoming further marginalised.

  • Don McCullin: “I could have gone on photographing wars all my life, but what kind of person would it have made me?”

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    Link: Don McCullin: “I could have gone on photographing wars all my life, but what kind of person would it have made me?” – British Journal of Photography Don McCullin explains the curiosity that made him return to war, and the energy and passion of his thirties that led to the success of his career.…

  • Don McCullin to headline Visa pour l’Image’s 25th edition

    Don McCullin to headline Visa pour l’Image’s 25th edition ‘To have such a distinguished 25-year-old festival, which has a huge following, invite me to have an exhibition there, I feel honoured and proud,’ says photographer Don McCullin, who spoke to BJP ahead of Visa pour l’Image’s press conference. ‘I’m going t via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2267717/don-mccullin-to-headline-visa-pour-limages-25th-edition…

  • Mythical power: Understanding photojournalism in the Vietnam War

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    Mythical power: Understanding photojournalism in the Vietnam War – David Campbell Photojournalism in the Vietnam War is often said to have had the power to change the course of the conflict. But this power is mythical. via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2013/01/31/mythical-power-understanding-photojournalism-in-vietnam-war/ “This is significant for photojournalism’s understanding of its historical role and potential power. Many of…

  • Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships

    Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships | PDNPulse Donna Ferrato brought a quick wit and joie de vivre to an onstage interview with NPR personality Alex Chadwick at the LOOK3 photo festival in Charlottesville on Friday afternoon. A unifying theme of their wide-ranging discussion was Ferrato’s belief…

  • Don McCullin’s war with guilt

    cnn: He has, as he puts it, taken “terrible liberties” with his life — dashing through rice paddies in Vietnam to escape snipers’ bullets; jumping up to snap a shot during gun battles — to bring home images that are, at times, excruciating to look at but often unforgettable.

  • Heroes & Mentors: Don McCullin and Eugene Richards

    PDN: Their conversation took place in New York City in January, the day after the opening for Richards’s exhibition “War is Personal” at 401 Projects. Link

  • Video: War wounds – Don McCullin on photography

    Video: War wounds – Don McCullin on photography

    Video: War wounds – Don McCullin on photography Don McCullin speaks about his ‘accidental career’ in war photography, and how shooting landscapes has granted him a sense of peace via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2010/mar/10/don-mccullin-photography The acclaimed frontline photojournalist speaks about the horrors of conflict, struggling with ‘this terrible name, war photographer’, and why shooting landscapes instead…

  • Don McCullin | Photography review | The Guardian

    Don McCullin | Photography review This career retrospective shows that time and familiarity have not dulled the impact of photojournalist Don McCullin’s astonishing combat photography, writes Andrew Pulver via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/don-mccullin-review It feels like a state honour: the photojournalist Don McCullin, one-time employee of the Observer and the Sunday Times, is being dignified with…

  • Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin

    Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin | Photography review The great war photographer Don McCullin talks to Sean O’Hagan ahead of the major retrospective of his work in Manchester via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/07/don-mccullin-shaped-war-review “The day I came across that boy was a killer day for me. There were 800 dying children in that schoolhouse.…

  • Don McCullin: War photographer

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    A couple of years ago I stumbled upon McCullins autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour‘ in Dublin and couldn’t put it down. It’s an unflinching account of his life. I really had no idea about the man at all (indeed might be due a re-read). Truly gripping a life like his defies fiction you really couldn’t make up the…

  • Picturing the homeless – Don McCullin | duckrabbit

    Picturing the homeless – Don McCullin | duckrabbit

    Picturing the homeless – Don McCullin — duckrabbit Sadly people are not really interested in the photographs I take of a rather depressing side of our society –… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/02/picturing-the-homeless-don-mccullin/ In 1989, British photojournalist Don McCullin approached the current affairs programme Newsnight with the idea of a highlighting the growing problem of London’s homeless…

  • John Tusa Interviews Don McCullin

    AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “John Tusa Interviews Don McCullin”: It can’t be easy bearing the title of the world’s greatest war photographer, but that’s only one of the burdens that Don McCullin carries around with him. But after 20 years of confronting the world with unforgettable images of war, from Congo to Biafra, to Beirut ,…

  • Where are the images of horror from Sri Lanka?

    Don McCullin says: Pictures of the beach near Mullaitivu, the last outpost of Tamil Tiger resistance in Sri Lanka, would have been among the greatest visual images of what war does to people. They would have been, if anybody had been there to take them. via TOAB

  • My family values: Don McCullin

    The Guardian says: I’m from Finsbury Park in north London. It was a place of ignorance, bigotry, poverty and violence. We were a family of five living in two basement rooms of a tenement block with no indoor loo.