Ryerson Lecture Series: October 11, 2007 – Mark Ruwedel

Nuclear photos.
Someone that goes out and makes careful observations of the world and reports back.
Photographing something that you can’t see.
Banality powerful when coupled with historical fact.
Relationship of caption to photo.
Captions give legal definitions.
What can be more invisible than nuclear radiation?
Garden at Three Mile Island.
Handford site.
Pictures of underground missles.
Documentary photographers have specific things to say.
Not subject alone that makes the pic.
“The most powerful statements about nuclear annihilation are, in fiction film, not documentary and that’s why I’m not a Documentary photographer.”
Center framing to not make pics look inventive.

~ by epkfilms on June 14, 2008.