Sunday, May 15, 2011

War and notebooks between the Libyan population globalize the irresistible temptation to photograph heinous

Menu ... click ... Multimedia ... click ... camera ... click ... capture ... click ... saving the file ... "Keeping what? A beautiful sunset? A succulent dish of rice? "The smile of a child? ... No. Keeping in Nokia Photo decapitated body of a pilot Gaddafi. The click is tremendous, no time to reflect before a decapitated body.

When the mid-nineteenth imagine disfigured face of Charles the Bold in 1477, painters Augustin Feyen-Perrin and Charles Houry had a canvas and all the time. How the skull shape of the Grand Duke of the West, sunk to the teeth by a halberd in the battle of Nancy, with her cheek devoured by wolves? ...

Too many hours to ponder: Charles the Bold appears in the paintings of romanticism almost intact. Now, click, and no time to think what the point of photographing the body of a pilot who has lost his mind too late to jump the Sukhoi aircraft touched by the rebels: the war and the globalized mobile phones among the population of eastern Libya guerrillas and not guerrillas, the irresistible temptation to photograph everything they see.

And everything is everything. The headless body, the firing of a missile, the face of terror of a mercenary caught, the details of the face of a fellow soldier whose neck just hit a mortar projectile ... click, click, click ... Flashes portray us as being without a head. It is another aspect of the festival Facebook, the squalor and options to infinity, provided by new technologies applied to the absurd.

What other images stored on mobile photography pilot Libyan beheaded? Does the picture of his three year old daughter happily jumping on the promenade in Benghazi? If the mobile Tunisia and Egypt served to mobilize demonstrations, in eastern Libya used to catch the atrocity of "banality would be the word? Why Epic? Or was it pleasure? ...

Because, unlike Syria, in eastern Libya and photojournalists are making it unnecessary this city without drive photojournalism information. More beats from the dark side. The South African reporter Lara Logan is a star of the CBS. In the Egyptian revolt, in the middle of Tahrir Square, dozens of men jumped on her, stripped her and raped her with his hands.

What did the reporter when, lying on the floor and pulled her panties, she looked up? ... click, click, click ... A multitude of mobile phones making pictures. The reality was just not real if it is captured and stored, it is like breathing, to transport and play. At a checkpoint in the valley Argandab Taliban, an Afghan soldier showed me the war etched on his mobile.

Never mind that U.S. helicopters were in the same moment in the landscape background firing, gunpowder gunpowder is trapped in a Nokia. Also among the press photographers extends the use of the iPhone before the iPhone, they say, everything is less artificial, more natural, no posing as it does on camera with lens, and everyone is more like it really is.

What would Goya photographed with an iPhone in the brutal French War? "The man who portrayed the pilot with Nokia beheaded this picture to himself that day I told a Libyan. - Why in the battlefield Western photojournalists photographed and published all sorts of carcasses minus their fallen comrades? "He replied.

Is the last image he retained the photographer Guillermo Cervera to sail from the besieged Misratah almost ghost ship to Europe, a boy on deck, no papers but with iPhone, photographing it, click it.

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