Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amen. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steven Alexander Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:58 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] fired for photoshopping At this point I have not looked at this creation of an event by a photographic artist utilizing the technology of the day. I do not need to see the artistic creation to arrive at the conclusion that it is not photojournalism but photo-story telling. Again, my opinion is based on my personal experience of 35+ years as a photojournalist for leading national and international news organizations. I will later look at the images and make some judgement as to their artistic value. But viewing them(it) will not change my opinion that reporting visually events does not include creating new points of view from several images to create a conceived event. It equates to a wordsmith taking separate events combining them to describe an event that never occurred. Those words would be referred to as a lie. Happy snaps, Steven Alexander - -- 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