Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, just had a thought strike me between the eyes. A common thread on this integrity thing is not the original photograph, but what happens to it afterward. We, as photographers, know what we get is usually a 'truthful' representation of reality. We can play with that reality a bit, both in taking the image and then in the darkroom. But, once in the hands of editors, art directors, and others, it gets altered. Is it the food chain thing? The photographer being the bottom rung on the ladder. His boss has the privilege to alter that image? Integrity remains intact until custody of the original is lost.