Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]someone beat up a spammer!!!??? cool Jack McLain Tucson, AZ http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Welch" <eric@jphotog.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Turing test > If I take a photograph of a man beating up a spammer, and then I put it > in the newspaper, besides the world rejoicing, the truth I mean to > communicate has been told. A man beat up a spammer. A dog didn't bark > Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. A giant ant didn't crawl out of the Los > Angeles River and destroy half the city. A man beat up a spammer. You > don't get the whole truth, like their middle names, but then no > communication between any humans ever communicates the whole truth. > > Similar kinds of truths we can communicate in various ways, such as > writing and speech, can be communicated visually as well. It's a straw > man to expect perfect truth from photographs before we allow them to > communicate any truth at all. That ignores the fact that ALL forms of > communicating the truth are similarly limited. > > On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 11:31 AM, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: > > > That's just the point. If the photo were truly a faithful > > representation of > > reality, you should not be able to tell the difference. "Truth" has > > nothing to > > do with photographic fidelity. > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > http://www.jphotog.com > > Never miss a good chance to shut up. - Will Rogers. > > -- > 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