Word: sygma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progressed -- in Asia and at home -- U.S. photographers left coverage elsewhere in the world to newly formed, predominantly French news agencies: Gamma, Sygma, Contact. Fiercely competitive, the agencies brought to news photography in Beirut, Tehran and other battlefronts a brand of reckless intimacy that television could not yet duplicate...
Cover: Hostage photographs by: A.F.P., AP, Gamma/Liaison, Sipa, Sygma and Worldwide Television News
Such has been the Falklands situation, where the British and Argentine military authorities, not to mention the remote location of the islands, have made the job of the world's photojournalists frustrating in the extreme. One of the few who have succeeded at all is Sygma Agency Photographer J.C. Criton. On assignment for TIME, Criton was able to get on and off the Falklands two weeks ago and send his pictures out of Argentina. His vivid photographs of Argentine troops and weapons on the Falklands were a highlight of last week's TIME. They were the only recent...
...this atmosphere, just about every photographer dreamed of executing a stealthy airborne pass over the Falklands. Last week another Sygma photographer and some television cameramen gave it a go by chartering a small private plane. The idea was daring, the result predictable: the plane was fired upon by the Argentines. A prudent and hasty retreat followed. As Master Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt once said, "If you are a reporter, you can be 500 miles behind the line. But a photographer has to be there." Getting there has proved to be quite a problem...
...first to make it through was Sygma Photographer Henri Bureau, 41, who was on assignment for TIME. He had photographed Solidarity's last meeting at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk just before martial law was imposed, then made his way back to Warsaw, taking pictures of troop movements through the window of his car. Leaving all his equipment behind, Bureau stuffed 30 rolls of film in his snow boots and rode an unheated train in subzero weather to Berlin with L'Express Correspondent Jacques Renard. Said Bureau: "The East Germans searched everything. They looked under seats with flashlights...