Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<html> At 12:37 AM 7/19/98 -0400, you wrote: <br> <br> <font size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>Good point there. A photograph is a slice out of a continuous timeline. What we sometimes make of any given "slice" can very well be a lie. I would then say that in that respect one could not make a moral judgement about a photograph, in that it represents a moment in time. This would make it without any moral attachment except those we ourselves give it.</font></blockquote><br> <font size=2>That makes it very important how a picture is used. The context in the "story" and the captioning of the photograph. When done properly photojournalism can be a very powerful communicative tool for the truth. It's not the story or the picture that has to be trusted, it's the trustworthiness of the publication, its editors who make the decisions they do. That's the basis for credibility of photojournalism.<br> <br> Personal photography should be treated the same way, if you ask me. I think that even when all we're doing (and this is no trivial thing) is documenting our families' lives, that we should make sure that it is done in an understandable way, so that future generations can look back and appreciate who we are. We all do family snapshots. Do we ever think about the historical value they might have for our great grandchildren? Imagine how much we'd know about our roots if our ancestors had Leicas two hundred years ago. Granny writing under the pictures in the photo albums sure knew what she was doing.</font><br> <div>-- </div> <br> <div>Eric Welch</div> <div>St. Joseph, MO</div> <div><a href="http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch</a></div> <br> Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control! </html>