Genius of Photography Part 3

1)One of the most familiar concepts in photography is that of the decisive moment, capturing something notable or an historic moment.
2)One should never trust a photograph but people are drawn to photographs and tend to take them at face value. We need to be objective when looking at photography.
3)The Leica was revolutionary in 1925 as it was so small and light it gave photographers, more sped, accuracy and accesability, especially for documentary photographers in war zones.
4)Geaorge Bernard Shaw said he would exchange all paintings of Christ for a single snapshot of Christ.
5)Tony Vaccaro's negatives were destroyed by the USA army censors because the imagery they contained was too negative and disturbing for the American public to handle.
6)Henryk Ross was a Jewish German photographer who was the official Photographer of the Lodz ghetto in Poland where he documented life within the ghetto, good times and of course the bad. He then buried the negatives and returned having survived, years later to retrieve the negatives. They are fascinating, emotional pictures.
7) the Family of Man exhibition was the 'sticking plaster for the wounds of War' which was organized by Edward Steichen in 1955. 9 million people had visited by 1964 and the final sentimental photograph at the end of the exhibition was W.Eugene Smith's image of his children, The Walk to Paradise Garden.(1946)