Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/05
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I need a pub, couple pints and a shaker of salt before these discussions. I was referring to photo journalism not adding to the hysteria and much of advertising certainly not co-opting the hysteria for the bottom line. Today such hysteria would be viewed as an opportunity to cash in, and worse advertising co-opts our emotional response to such events (past and present)for their own ends by using photojournalistic techniques. The most notorious and obvious would be Benetton ads. Advertising INMHO has seriously compromised PJ. In the 1950's, news was "facts", advertising sold products, and PJ told stories. Advertising has swallowed it all so there is little distinction between the three and what is generated is a hyperrealism that can't be taken seriously. So, the news, advertising, and PJ can't be taken seriously anymore. Ask anyone in High School these days.
Chris Saganich
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From: eric@jphotog.com [mailto:eric@jphotog.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:25 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHERS; Leicas
A recent PBS piece on the spys and the atom bomb projects back in the
40s showed how there were many, many people in the U.S. government who
were spying for the Soviet Government. Imagine, if McCarthy had
actually done his homework, rather than just pulling papers out of his
trash and waving them at his hearings, he might have actually found
more than two or three real spys.
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:10 AM, bdcolen wrote:
> Sorry, Chris, you lost me there...you mean the media that helped whip
> up
> the hysteria of the evil and perversion of the blacklist?;-)
Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.jphotog.com
"If we had time for more meetings, we would have made more mistakes."
Leon Trotsky
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