Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here is a real problem with digital technology. You not only cannot trust today's photographs but historical photos can now be tampered with without being detected. While it is true that photos have been doctored from the beginning of photography, this tampering could be detected. Not so today. Sad! Ken Wilcox At 4:49 -0700 6/20/0, a fine scholar, Ted Grant wrote: >"Lying with photographs is more serious than lying with words, because >people believe that the camera cannot lie." > >Ladies and gentlemen, >The above is a quotation from an article in Le Monde Diplomatique 16 >February 2000. Please remember this is a quotation from Le Monde of >Paris! Think about it for a moment before you respond, as I find it >very interesting as a lifelong, 50 years, photojournalist, > >Think about about that for a moment in this day of computers, digital >cameras and photoshop. > >Do you feel this is right or wrong? > >ted - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>