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Subject: [Leica] Crazy
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:51:44 -0800
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On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:48 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> what did he "lie" about?
> he chose to visually talk about wrapping a fighter's hand
> in a visually dramatic manner.
> 
> he chose not to talk about people standing in the background.
> had he a 75mm lens on the camera at that moment
> he'd very well may have made the photo without cropping a wider view.

every single photo ever made is a crop, 

therefore an edited bit of history...


Steve


> 
> what do you know from the full frame color
> that you don't know from the cropped b&w?
> 
> is that additional knowledge important to you or the story?
> 
> Every documentary photographer and writer throughout history
> has chosen what to include and exclude from their stories.
> 
> If you want the absolute, unvarnished truth,
> you need at least three video cameras
> running 24/7
> everywhere
> then view it all
> unedited.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:26 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote:
> 
>> It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography.  He's created a lie.
> 
> 
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