Human Action

11/19/04: On 8/29 I went to the big anti-Bush turnout in the city. It gave me a taste for photos of human action, always well dosed with irony – I hope my photos show folks were having a good time, and that war is colorful even on the home front. Have you noticed what a difference there is between the black-and-white photos of World War 2 and those of Vietnam and subsequent wars? I remember first feeling that difference in 1957, when Columbia Studios released "The Bridge on the River Kwai." War in color has a certain Christmas cheer about it – green, the military color, color of the jungle, and the red of blood and napalm. If I were able to photograph a war from the front lines I'd do my best to bring out that irony.