Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:09 PM 3/31/99 +0200, you wrote: >It is difficult to produce images that 'work' on their own right. Very >often, pictures of people "getting on with their lifes" fail to function as >soon as the caption disappears. In those circumstances, it is the caption >and the article that tell the story, transforming the pictures into >illustrations. I don't think so. No picture is going to be useful without text. What good is a portrait without knowing who the person is? Pictures of people getting on with their lives at least has more information that historians could conceivably use to gain information. What good would a picture of a person staring at the camera do more? I agree that it might be an easier connection superficially to have eye contact. But that starts looking like every other eye-contact picture out there. The combination of pictures and words is the most effective media, if you ask me. What the Photographic Communication book by R. Smith Scunneman talks about at the "third effect." The sum of the parts, words and pictures, is greater than the individual parts. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch My computer's sick. I think my modem is a carrier.