Shots that changed the world: It was almost impossible to watch the news or get on the internet this past week without seeing the photo of Aylan Kurdi. I'm sure it will continue to...

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

It was almost impossible to watch the news or get on the internet this past week without seeing the photo of Aylan Kurdi. I'm sure it will continue to affect me deeply for some time. It's a vivid reminder that a single photo can truly change the world. I've attached an excellent article from the Wall Street Journal that examines this in greater detail....
http://www.wsj.com/articles/aylan-kurdi-and-the-photos-that-change-history-1442002594

RS Loc: W Columbia, SC

That was a mind boggling article - certainly makes a person stop and think about all the catastrophes in this world . . .
Thanks for the posting; as you say, it is amazing how a single photo can be such a vivid reminder.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

ajohnston3 wrote:

It was almost impossible to watch the news or get on the internet this past week without seeing the photo of Aylan Kurdi. I'm sure it will continue to affect me deeply for some time. It's a vivid reminder that a single photo can truly change the world. I've attached an excellent article from the Wall Street Journal that examines this in greater detail....
http://www.wsj.com/articles/aylan-kurdi-and-the-photos-that-change-history-1442002594

The ultimate discussion of that topic has to be Susan Sontag's series of essays in the New York Review of Books from the 1970's that she published in 1977 as the book On Photography.

Sontag considered a wide range of effects, from how photography made violence a public norm to photography itself being the "subliminal murder" of a subject.

For serious photographers the work of Sontag is a necessary base for building an ethical standard on the philosophy of photography.

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

Apaflo wrote:

The ultimate discussion of that topic has to be Su... (show quote)

Thanks for the info. I WILL be looking that up..... I have family on Kodiak Island (way over on the other side of the state) currently fishing for Silvers.... hoping for another run of Reds before the season ends...

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

ajohnston3 wrote:

Thanks for the info. I WILL be looking that up..... I have family on Kodiak Island (way over on the other side of the state) currently fishing for Silvers.... hoping for another run of Reds before the season ends...

Kodiak, if I remember right, is one of those tropical islands down south? Probably a nice place, if you like rain (I admit to hating it).

Up here we are about to get a run of Bowhead whales! Fall whaling will begin shortly, and that gets everyone excited. A nice fat 35 foot long Bowhead whale has a special name in Inupiaq that I can never remember, much less pronounce, but they say that what it means is "Butterball Turkey"!

Whale meat is good stuff!