Questions and Answers
1. What is described as "one of the most familiar concepts of photography"?
One of the most familiar concepts of photography involves the use of the decisive moment.
2. Should you trust photography?
Judging from the views of photojournalists in this documentary, we should not always trust or believe what we see in photographs. According to some experts trusting a photograph proved to be a "huge mistake" in the very beginning.
3. What was revolutionary about the Leica in 1925?
The Leica was a camera that was first released in Germany in the year of 1925. The Leica was considered to be revolutionary because it was quiet, compact, and it also had the most advanced lens of that time.
4.What did George Bernard Shaw say about all the paintings of Christ?
Playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw once said: "I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot."
5. Why were Tony Vaccaro's negatives destroyed by the army censors?
Soldier-photographer Tony Vaccaro's negatives were destroyed by the army censors because they believed that the world was not yet ready to see the blood and death associated with war.
6.Who was Henryk Ross and what was his job?
Henryk Ross was a photojournalist before the outbreak of World War II and he became the official photographer for a ghetto that housed Jewish people in Poland during the war. He spent his time documenting the life of Jews in the ghetto, often at great personal risk but he felt that it was his duty to document the truth so that the world could see the atrocity caused by the Nazis.
7.Which show was a " sticking plaster for the wounds of the war", how many people saw it and what "cliché" photograph did it end on?
The show was called The Family of Man and was seen by millions and it ended on an optimistic cliché.
8. Why did Joel Meyerowitz photograph Ground Zero in colour?
Joel Meyerowitz photographed Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers because he didn't want to make it look like a tragedy.
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