Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Tina, that's what -IMHO - a number of people seem to be missing. Great fiction - All Quiet On The Western Front, Henry V - and great art - Guernica, for example, can make extremely powerful statements, and have enormous impact. But they don't gain that impact by masquerading as fact. When fiction comes to the party masquerading as fact, truth goes home early. B. D. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:31 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ? At 09:25 AM 5/12/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Well said Henning. >I am staunchly on your side and Philippe's, >and opposite of B.D., Mark, and others'. >To say that the image in itself looses its power >because it is staged, (which it is not) is like >saying a story is not good because it is fiction. >Do you guys only watch movies "based on a true >story" ? But, Phong, to write fiction and pass it off as true would be just as wrong as staging a documentary photograph. That's how several journalists have gotten in trouble lately. There should be a definite line between truth and fiction in writing just as there should be between staged and documentary photographs. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information