A History Of The World According To Getty Images
“Newsreel cameras document power. But what strikes me most about my exploration of the Getty archive is how much the act of filming is itself an expression of power — men filming women, the rich filming the poor, colonizers filming the colonized. […] Whenever I search a news archive, I always hope I’ll find some images that aren’t about power, and once in awhile I do. But by and large, the past offers no surprises, as it is the source of all the inequalities and injustices that still exist”
As someone who loves taking pictures and documenting things (I am my own family’s self-appointed archivist), this was a mind-bender to me. True, and yet hidden to me for so many years.
