Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good for you, Tina. Too many people are turning documentary photography into a cross between fashion photography and performance art. Typed with big fingers on tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> Sender: lug-bounces+bd=bdcolenphoto.com at leica-users.org Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 14:43:35 To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one? I am very interested in that book and have ordered it. The documentary tradition that I learned and have tried to apply is that you change absolutely nothing for a photo. I never move anything, never pose people, never even suggest that they do something over again. If I'm lucky enough to get the photo the first time, fine. If not, a reenactment does not qualify as documentary photography. The reason I stay several days is so that people will forget that I'm taking photographs and just go on about their lives. Sitting quietly in a corner with an M camera and a Noctilux, I can be very boring and unnoticeable. That's an advantage taking the photos but not promoting them ;-) Tina On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote: > Ted Grant wrote: >>My job was to cover the event! Not make a journalistic statement or >>political > justification one way or the other! > > > I agree that that's the ideal posture from a news perspective, but I wonder > how easy it is to keep your emotions and your seeing separate. ?Here's a > book that explores the question. I haven't read it yet but Errol Morris is > a respected documentary filmmaker so I expect he's thought quite a bit > about this. > > http://www.amazon.com/Believing-Seeing-Observations-Mysteries-Photography/dp/1594203016/ref=pd_sim_b_4 > > > -- > Phil Swango > 307 Aliso Dr SE > Albuquerque, NM 87108 > 505-262-4085 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information