Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric- I can see your point, for the photojournalist, but as a person who does photography to convey what I see in a scene, I have no shame to have someone stop, be still a moment, and shoot! I shoot from the hip at times, but then again I am not constrained by the standards of a PJ, as I am sure a lot of our fellow LUGgers are not. And I bet that you are not a PJ 25 hours out of the day( I hope you're not- you don't seem to be too 'one dimensional'), and I hope that you take a shot or two just for the simple pleasure of capturing friends, your fellow man and family at a specific time and place...! Even if you have to say, "hold it a second!" Dan - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] I missed it. >At 03:23 PM 4/2/99 +0200, you wrote: >> Charbonnier, Doisneau, Bill Brandt, a lot >>of guys who did big photo essays for the picture magazines set up their >>shots. The real question is *how* the shot is set up. Does it convey the >>situation honestly and revealingly, and appealingly? > >It is not acceptable. Period. If a picture looks like it's not "posed" then >it darn well better not be. That's the way photojournalism works now, and >documentary photographers should do the same. It's not enough to pretend >it's honest. Either it is, or isn't. That hasn't been the way it's always >been. But that's the way it needs to be now, if there is to be any >credibility in documentary and photojournalistic work. It's way too easy to >manipulate photos nowadays and have it so seamless that you can't tell it's >manipulated. It used to be hard to do. > >And the Minimata picture you talk about, of the bath, was shot in a room >with one window, and it was a mother bathing her daughter Tomoko. (Just to >be picky). > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > The strength and power of despotism > consists wholly in the fear of resistance. > -- Thomas Paine >