O fotojornalista Don McCullin (Londres, 1935) ganhou fama pelas suas fotografias de guerra e conflitos urbanos, trabalhando mais de 20 anos para o Sunday Times. A guerra proporciona imagens impressivas, como socos no estômago, em quem as vê e em quem as tira. McCullin, como outros fotojornalistas, viu-se amiúde confrontado com a dúvida, devo carregar no botão ou parar e ajudar a pessoa que tenho na mira?
Até que desistiu, afirmando-se cansado da guerra, pouco depois de, em Beirute, uma mulher tentar tirar-lhe a máquina fotográfica, gritando que ele não tinha o direito de fotografá-la, no meio daquele sofrimento. Já este mês, no festival fotográfico de Perpignan, McCullin disse ter vergonha de ser considerado fotógrafo de guerra.
McCullin passou então a 'trabalhar' paisagens e naturezas mortas. Com a mesma perícia.
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1958. Sheep to slaughter |
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1961, August. East berliners watch construction of the Berlin Wall. Germany |
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1961, November. West berliners watch construction of the Berlin Wall. Germany |
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1961, November. Construction of the Wall, West Berlin. Germany |
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1961, November. Windows are bricked up on the East Berlin. |
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1962. Protester, cuban missile crisis. Whitehall, London |
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1963. West Hartlepool steelworks. County Durham, UK |
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1964. Suspected freedom fighters, loyal to deposed prime minister, Patrice Lumumba,
being tormented by congolese soldiers before execution. Stanleyville, Congo |
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1964. British peacekeeping soldiers transport the bodies of turks killed by greek militia. Cyprus |
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1964. Turkish defender leaving the side entrance of a cinema. Limassol, Cyprus |
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1968. Biafra, south-eastern Nigeria |
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1968. Fallen north vietnamese soldier. Vietnam |
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1968. Paul McCartney, Ringo Star and George Harrison fakes John Lennon's death |
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1968, february. Shell-shocked US marine awaits evacuation, Tet offensive. Hué, South Vietname |
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1970 (ca). Windsor Baths, Bradford |
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1970. Homeless irishman. Aldgate (East End), London |
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1970. Bogside, Londonderry. Northern Ireland |
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1971.8.7. Young catholic rioters trying to escape from clouds of CS gas released by the troop.
Bogside, Londonderry, Northern-Ireland |
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1973. Snowy the mouseman. Cambridge |
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1976. Christian gunmen battling palestinians from the foyer of the Holiday Inn. Beirut, Lebanon |
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1993. Apples from my gardens. Somerset |
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2000. The Battlefields of the Somme. France |
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2002. Family of Mursi shepherds. Ethiopia |
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2006. Ladie's day, Royal Ascot
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