标题: 《The Face of Hate 》作者:- Stephen L. Burns【EPUB】 [打印本页]

作者: zaq    时间: 2013-11-15 08:29
标题: 《The Face of Hate 》作者:- Stephen L. Burns【EPUB】
THE FACE OF HATE by STEPHEN L. BURNS Illustration by Bill Warren * * * * People can learn from experience, but often only by small and painful steps... Certain images can shake and remake worlds. The best of them can be nearly universally comprehensible, bullets of meaning snapping through the foggy barriers of language and culture and predisposition to strike a bulls-eye of revelation. When I teach classes, I often use Stuart Franklin’s classic Tiananmen Square photograph of the man with the shopping bag facing down a tank—a line of tanks. Show it to a rain forest tribesman who has never seen a tank before, and still he understands what he is seeing: a small, fragile, exquisitely courageous man facing down a monstrous power he cannot hope to stop, and yet who has, at least for a fleeting moment, stopped it. Some images can imprint themselves on us deeper than scars, more indelibly than tattoos. They wind themselves into our brains, some even growing into fixation. This is an occasionally black magic perfected by religious iconographers, and still afoot in our own digital age. A life-long photojournalist, luck put me in the right place at the right time to take one particular image that swept around the world, one image from a series documenting one of the most crucial turning





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