Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nick, Yes, good point, I agree with you, the photograph does work because it shows the humanity of the subject, whom we would never think of as homeless, if Kyle didn't include a description of the guy. It is a conundrum, if we show pictures of homeless people that match the pictures in your brain, we're seen as showing mere cliches. If we show you a photograph of a homeless person who doesn't appear to be homeless, we're showing his individual humanity. It seems to me that everyone has to work at recognizing all pictures of human beings as showing humanity, instead of dismissing some as cliches. Larry ----- So if it's a cliche it's OK, but if Kyle actually makes us think about the individual nature of homeless people it's not? What's most ironic of all is that this pic of Kyle's actually does precisely what you and Adam are (correctly) asking for, IMHO. Nick