Papal Visit, 87th Street
The pope arrived on the upper east side. I couldn’t get anywhere near the little church in Yorkville that he visited but here’s a little gallery of the people who waited to catch a glimpse of his holiness but never did.
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Comments
Comment from Stephen BRAY
Time: April 24, 2008, 1:09 pm
Dave,
As ever, beautifully framed and finished images. They are reminiscent of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s images of the Coronation of King George VI, which he covered for Ce Soir. The publisher insisted that he use a half plate news camera as the negatives were easier to ’spot’ than the ones from his favorite Leica.
From what I can see your images are technically cleaner, have greater tonality, are sharper and every bit as good in other ways than those of HCB. Who cares that you never got to photograph the Pope, it’s not the Pomp, or the Pope, it is the circumstance that counts, and you have captured it admirably in these images.
Stephen
Comment from Jim Talkington
Time: April 22, 2008, 12:50 pm
Now that’s a great documentary series. I just went to an ONPA (Ohio News Photographers Association) seminar this past weekend. Newspaper photography is now all about video (and grabbing still frame grabs for the print publication). We laughed about when they used to have Photoshop seminars…Final Cut is the new Photoshop. So it’s great to see documentary black and white photography and remember why it was my first photographic love. Someday the street photographers may be the only ones documenting events with this kind of coverage.