Magnum Blog: Peter van Agtmael
Hey teach!!! Its me Finn, back again with a late blog because I thought we only had the critique blog left. Straight to it then! Step 1: Look at photos. I see first things first that he seems to be a war photojournalist, I see what looks like the war America had with Iraq, and very interesting and confusing photos that seem to represent the chaos and Vietnam like war we had where innocents were mercilessly killed and harmed by both sides, only furthering the damage that we came to "stop" as well as the mental scarring and horror of the war for the American soldiers being used as the weapons that cause it. The photos are all incredibly dramatic and eye catching, they feel almost normal to me due to the heavy amount of call of duty and black ops games I have played - well normalized and also in that style, they seem like movie shots almost, unreal or detached from the horrors they show. I especially get these feelings in the ones that are clear but definitely still in the ones...