[Leica] Ultimate photography

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Mar 4, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Tina wrote:

>
> "Photography is finally escaping any dependence on what is in front  
> of a lens"
>
> I hope not!!  It's my hope that photography will
> come full circle and after traveling through
> Cindy Sherman and digital manipulations and
> beyond it will come all the way back to reportage.

Reportage is seeing what the photographer sees. The ultimate end of  
photography will be when neuroscience manages to capture visual  
images directly from the optic nerves of the photographer and  
transmit it directly to the brain of the viewer. When worked for the  
Boston Globe half a century ago my photo editor strongly believed  
that the photographer was the viewer surrogate. His photos should  
present the same image that a viewer (i.e. newspaper reader) would  
see if he was standing in the same spot. He felt that the use of  
telephoto and wide angle lenses were editorializing since they  
altered the nature of the scene. Of course since we all used 4x5  
Speed Graphics this was a moot point.

Larry Z