Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Picture alteration
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:59:28 +0200 (MEST)

Street photography moved to the football field. A lot of environment :)

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Hmmm, the sports shots must have been 'interesting' ;-)
>
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> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of
> LRZeitlin@aol.com
> Sent: 01 August 2003 03:34
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Picture alteration
>
>
> The extreme case:
>
> As a young photojournalist, I worked for a photo editor who told me he would
>
> never publish a picture taken with anything but a "normal" lens unless it
> was
> absolutely necessary.  He believed that the role of the photographer was
> transport the reader to the location in which the event occured and present
> the
> scene as if it could be directly viewed. The camera was the reader's eyeball
>
> surrogate. Any perspective distortion was editorializing, an unforgivable
> sin in
> newspaper work.
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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