Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] Crazy
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 05:53:28 +0530
References: <622400.51933.qm@web111720.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

John,
Do you mean to say that airbrushing inconvenient parts of images is
acceptable? Or staging images and passing them off as spontaneous? These
'lies' have always been part and parcel of photography and photojournalism,
especially when a propaganda machine is rolling.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:56 AM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at 
yahoo.com>wrote:

> > But don't we do that with choice of film and processing, too?  The actual
> > scene would have been in color but we choose to portray it in B&W, with a
> > particular lens, and processing - whether it's digital or film?
>
> It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography.  He's created a lie.
>
> > http://bit.ly/bYEjtq
>
> --John
>
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