Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Don't "you" (photo> journalists) always play with reality based on your prejudices or adjenda? I became a photojournalist in the late 1950's, while a mere child. I have done nothing else to earn a living since then except that around mid 1980's I began to do more self assignments in the stock business and paying less attention to news related areas. The simple act of producing a camera changes the reality. This is more ture today, most people are media wise, than in the past. Add to this action the individual vision and thinking of the image-maker and the dynamics of the situation is altered. A good photograph is not a mere record of a person or event but a visual interpertation. Do you shoot both sides of the street? I would hope not unless your personal vision compelled you to do that. Beside the technical skills needed a good photo journalist needs to employ a personal point of view is required so the audience becomes involved. If there is no audience experiencing the photos they are not meaningful or suscessful. You, as a reveiver of the image, become involved either because you agree or dsiagree, but the point of a sucessful image is that the viewer reacts and discovers events/ information that normally they would not be able to become involved with. My 2 cents. Steven Alexander