Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What Smith did was, by today's standards, inexcusable. BUT - he was not operating under today's standards: he was working in an era in which standards were much different. Look through a pile of old LIFE's and you will quickly see that the 'golden days' of PJ were days of the set up shot.... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Dan C Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:41 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Shakleton Photos Faked And even in more recent times, W. Eugene Smith was known to alter some of his photos for artistic sense. And many of his photo essay's were setups. But the bottom line was that he was not depicting a lie. His photos showed Doctor Schweitzer doing what he actually did in real life, Smith just wanted the photos to look a bit better. -dan c. At 02:20 PM 22-08-04 -0400, Emanuel Lowi wrote: >Remember too that there was a tradition of photo >humbuggery established before the days of yellow >journalism. There were pictures haunted with ghosts & >people posed with props or dressed up in strangers >clothes, for effect. > >Exposure times were long and the gear cumbersome -- >none of this zippy whiz-bang digital ease, eh ;-) > >So they made sure the picture looked "right," even >though it was "wrong." Plus ?a change... > >Emanuel Lowi >Montreal > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information