“I think newspapers are getting killed by TV, and TV is getting killed by itself.”
So says legendary photographer Stanley Forman this week, in an indictment of the power of television as a medium. Forman is (in)famous for taking the 1975 photograph of 19 year old Diana Bryant and her two year old god-daughter Tiare Jones falling from a broken fire escape during an apartment fire in Boston, Massachusetts. Diana did not survive the fall and, decades before 9/11, Forman’s photograph bought into question the rights of victims and the voyeuristic nature of photography.
He was quoted in an interview from the BBC as the World Press Photo foundation celebrates the 50th anniversary of its annual photographic competition.
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Tiare Jones was her niece, not her daughter.
Source:
Moments: The Pulitzer Price winning photographs, page 115