Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jounalism pictorials were used ever since photography was invented for publicity and "propaganda". I'm not saying a picture does not lie or whether it portrays reality, but stating a pictorial content should represent the absolute truth is kind of stretching it. Just like our TV newscast. I wouldn't trust heresay a 100% either. - --- GeeBee <graham@geebeespaw.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > I accept "spin" as a reality in just about > everything I read in the > newspapers, isn't that "ProseShopping". If the LA > Times guy had > "PhotoShopped" a herd of elephants in and the > picture was run under a > headline "Hannibal Hussein moves the 43rd Pachyderm > Regiment to the front" > that would obviously be unacceptable but it seems a > little unfair to me to > expect such high standards from press photographers. > Particularly when large > sections of those that disseminate the news seem, to > me at any rate, exempt > from such high ideals for a lot of the time. > > --Graham > > > > From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <sld@earthlink.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: 03 April 2003 07:50 > Subject: Re: [Leica] fired for photoshopping > > > > Sometime ago, a publisher of the LA Times, stated > that it's the paper's > > duty to be engaged in social engineering. I got > the impression that > > anything was permissible under that declaration. > > Slobodan Dimitrov > > > > Frank Filippone wrote: > > > > > > And what do you read in a newspaper or see in > paid advertising that is > 100% > > > truth? Why should photography be the only 100% > truth? > > > > > > Apropos the comment about a Pulitzer for > unmanipulated images... are you > > > sure there has never been any darkroom "magic" > done to improve a > Pulitzer > > > winning picture? It is only the amount of that > manipulation that seem > to > > > bother people. > > > > > > It is all perception. > > > > > > Frank Filippone > > > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html