Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you are shooting all the action going on around you and you are a true photojournalist intent on covering every element of the event, you don't even think about anything else but getting the best bloody images showing what's happening! IT'S A NO BRAINER!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO TAKE SIDES IF "YOU ARE COVERING THE EVENT!" with a neutral mind set! How difficult is that to understand? Been in more than a few and I shot all the actions that I could see happening regardless of whomever it was! I was a recorder of the event..... not making any judgmental decisions! ted ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:48 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one? > We can only look at documentary photography filtered through the eyes of > our own experience, but that, to me, is a very valid point of view. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:23 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information