Paul Fusco The California Grape Strike. USA. 1968.
“Capa’s famous quote, ‘if your images aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,’ is meaningful to me because my favorite lens is a 35mm, as it is the clo
(...) sest rendition of what the naked eye sees — and when I use that lens, I must get close to the subject. My goal is to bring life to my photos without changing anything in the image itself. That is, to show all of life as it is and not to show what I did to interfere in that moment of life. I want my photographs to make you feel what I felt. Often it's difficult or impossible to achieve that, especially when I am close to my subjects, because my presence can create a shift. In this photo, the children’s situation was unchanged by my presence, even though they are looking directly at me. I hope this photograph conveys the hardship that the children and their parents faced, the isolation the kids felt in the car in this vast field, as well as the comfort that the kids gave one another.”
— Paul Fusco © Paul Fusco | Magnum Photos
