tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4102632517024408300..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: John H. White: Black Chicago, early 1970sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12086051226862226832016-12-22T09:24:22.609-08:002016-12-22T09:24:22.609-08:00These are stunning photos - thanks so much for sha...These are stunning photos - thanks so much for sharing them.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13196075316955561063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63775497483834546002013-06-12T08:24:24.777-07:002013-06-12T08:24:24.777-07:00A high school friend of mine was just laid off fro...A high school friend of mine was just laid off from her job as an in-house photographer at a Boston-area university, along with the rest of the photography staff. It seems especially unfair that it happened now, as some of the excellent photos she took of the campus' reaction to the Boston bombings were picked up by the news wires and used in papers nationwide. <br /><br />Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38406569530394961872013-06-12T07:14:03.373-07:002013-06-12T07:14:03.373-07:00So crazy. Everyone is a photographer, poet, artis...So crazy. Everyone is a photographer, poet, artist . . . News is now tweeted.<br /><br />These photos are amazing.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79270063473138263082013-06-11T22:09:20.271-07:002013-06-11T22:09:20.271-07:00The "news" that cameras are being "...The "news" that cameras are being "replaced" by iphones comes as a blow that takes away one's breath. At first.<br /><br />It's that increasingly familiar feeling, these days. While we were looking the other way (Eyes Wide Shut), the enemy has taken over.<br /><br />Not our world anymore but the world of the bots in suits who are farming us for their own interests... Oh, and of course, for the data-harvesting interests of the total-surveillance state.<br /><br />(Is there really any conflict there? Is there a difference between the corporations and the Mega-State any more?) <br /><br />In one of several heartbreaking interviews given in the days when he was still reeling from this shock, John White said, on the issue of the replacement of photographers by iphone-wielding bots in pants: <br /><br />"You don't ask the person who fills your prescription to do your heart surgery."<br /><br />Yes, Vassilis, Kodachrome. The world in living colour, as it was before the mercy-killing. <br /><br />Performed by increments every day now, and without either Kodachrome or mercy... or even a small thank you very much.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2960526178469004192013-06-11T16:21:16.023-07:002013-06-11T16:21:16.023-07:00"Scattered poverty" replaced with "..."Scattered poverty" replaced with "concentrated poverty."<br /><br />It sounds like a sick joke but White was there to confirm it. -K-https://www.blogger.com/profile/03289562368002376807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22594688812642581962013-06-11T15:54:33.841-07:002013-06-11T15:54:33.841-07:00I could look at those pictures for hours, and it w...I could look at those pictures for hours, and it would not be enough to extract all the history and stories they contain. Wonderful post, Tom. iPhone photography, oh that is so sad.<br />The plans to move scattered poverty to concentrated poverty are still going on in some big cities I think. I am thinking about Paris among others, and the rich Stockholm who officially wants a city centre free of.. whatever it is that is disturbing.. and move all this to the suburbs where no one but the people involved can see it. The solution of the problem is the vanishing...Marie Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787850063283960703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48350793716605154992013-06-11T14:01:16.963-07:002013-06-11T14:01:16.963-07:00I have the suspicion White's great photos were...I have the suspicion White's great photos were taken in Kodachrome--if so, this photojournalistic story is doubly sad.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53373845855898693172013-06-11T10:26:52.745-07:002013-06-11T10:26:52.745-07:00So, everybody's a photographer now. It makes m...So, everybody's a photographer now. It makes me furious.<br /><br />The community block groups sound like the best kind of resistance.<br /><br />These are photographs that place the frame at the most telling point, where you can feel it. PJ Love.<br /><br />Reporters with iphones: I don't have the words.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13056403642527187492013-06-11T07:39:04.705-07:002013-06-11T07:39:04.705-07:00Tom,
Great photos, great photographer -- what a w...Tom,<br /><br />Great photos, great photographer -- what a wake up call. . . (Front page headline in NYTimes this morning: "CHICAGO TACTICS PUT MAJOR DENT IN KILLING TREND / REVERSAL OF 2012 SPIKE / Early Results as Police / Focus on Gangs –– / Effort Is Costly")<br /><br />6.11<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />top of ridge, bird calling across field<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> fact that might well appear<br /> as itself, experience<br /><br /> approaching one, “abstract”<br /> “look,” interior part<br /><br />grey plane of fog reflected in channel,<br />pelican flapping across toward horizon<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86968979837732317932013-06-11T04:53:04.377-07:002013-06-11T04:53:04.377-07:00John H. White, who took these pictures, was recent...John H. White, who took these pictures, <a href="http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/photojournalist-john-h-white-layoffs-35-years-chicago-sun-times" rel="nofollow">was recently fired after 35 years on the job at the Chicago Sun-Times</a>.<br /><br />John White is also a teacher of the discipline he has long practised -- photojournalism, or PJ Love as he likes to call it.<br /><br />A 1947 urban redevelopment plan projected to transform the "Bronzeville" ghetto areas of the South and Near West Sides of Chicago ultimately produced the desolate strip of concrete wastelands seen in an early stretch of John White's photos here. The outcome of the implementation of the plan, by the early 1970s, was the wholesale demolition of large swaths of variably run-down older brick-and-wood neighborhoods, passages of what sociologists call "scattered poverty", and their replacement by pockets of "concentrated poverty", bleak tracts of half-deserted highrises, broken glass, grit and crime sprawled across the ruins of the former communities. The end-of-the-world victory landscape envisioned and brought into barren reality by the developers, architects and city planners can be observed in some of the pictures here. For the people seen in John White's remarkable pictures from the early Seventies, this, then, was the life there was to live.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com