Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> > Do you feel this is right or wrong? > > ted People don't trust photographs, they were never real, always capable of corruption and people know it. life magazine was so obviously airbrushed all those years Doctored photos are just part of the global culture. Lee Harvey Oswald in the backyard. Mao in the ocean. No ones going to bet on those questionable realities. Now any grade school kid is licensed for advanced cloning in Photoshop Have all the airbrushes dried up? And sound recordings never had any ultimate reality either. No! there is no sure deal as to a recorded reality. We've learned to take any recording of reality with a grain of salt. And try to trust what we experience directly the most. Mark Rabiner