On Don McCullen
Title: On Don McCullen
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On Don McCullen
HND Design Photography
Contextual Studies
Essay 'On Don McCullin'
I intend in this following essay to show how much of Don McCullins work, throughout his career, represents pictures of people rather than pictures of war, as Edward Steichen said, " the real mission of photography is explaining man to himself ". I feel that a lot of McCullins work is more often about the social circumstances of people, with war and suffering, often, simply a background to
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countries and this is, obviously, a huge influence and part of his work, and portrays that which is often of the worst side of human nature. I believe we see that they are, pictures of social interaction and human nature presented against the backdrop of the world's troubles but most importantly pictures of people.
" As resonant as Goya's most terrifying images, collectively McCullins photographs constitute one of the great documents of human conflict".
Jerry Brotton.
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