Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right. As long as we conveniently forget that one of W. Eugene Smith's most iconic images, the heroic portrait of Albert Schweitzer, was composed in the darkroom by sandwiching two negatives. The point is not that film is trustworthy and digital isn't - it's that some photographers are trustworthy and some aren't. In Smith's defense I would note that the standards of photojournalism have gotten much tougher/better since the days of the Schweitzer photo. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of ned@kajabbi.com Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:21 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] fired for photoshopping Best reason to believe FILM will ALWAYS be a part of our culture. >-- Original Message -- >Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:05:35 -0500 >Subject: [Leica] fired for photoshopping >From: David C Mason <dcm@pobox.com> >To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > >Here's an article about a photographer who was fired for combining two >photos from Iraq - > >http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/04/ >02national0956EST0597.DTL > > > >Dave > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html