Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/2/03 Martin Howard wrote: > >Is it better to pretend that the "camera doesn't lie" and thus pass off >many little lies as par for the course because people don't stop to >think critically -- risking that big ones will slip through unnoticed; >or is it better to expose all the lies, and the way in which the camera >does lie, but require people to exert the extra effort? > Once we start lying it doesn't stop. Once the decision is made to say or show something we KNOW isn't true but will present as representative of the truth then its a lie. But I'm not a journalist or an editor. If it's not news photography then the rules are different. Of course this is in an ideal world - not the real one. Truth seldom sells newspapers. :( Adam Bridge - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html