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Subject: [Leica] What is truth: A photograph was is
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Mar 30 18:57:41 2005
References: <fb.6e009d9f.2f7cbda7@aol.com>

Bob wrote:
> An unmanipulated photo is the record of a brief stop and blink on the 
> train 
> of time at a particular moment and place and view, be the technology of 
> that 
> blink film or digital, the medium B&W or color. Once the exposure is made, 
> we 
> can not back the train of time up to take the same blink. The resultant 
> image 
> isn't a memory or a vision or anything fanciful. It is a visual testiment 
> that 
> can be made intellible to others who will succeed us or who are our 
> contemporaries. 

yes, but unmanipulated or not, it's all 
about what we chose to show,  or what we 
chose not to show...


Steve

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