Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I think any photojournalist who is honest about what goes on in conflict > areas, for instance, where clashes and riots are often "staged" > in response > to the presence of the press, would disagree with you. And please > don't tell > me that you've never asked someone to move aside to improve the > light or the > picture in any number of ways. Well, maybe you haven't! But again, what we > are talking about here is method, not the picture. As an example, do you > really think Eugene Smith didn't very largely stage manage the picture of > the mourning women in his Spanish Village essay? Set up lights, ask people > to move aside so he could get a good view of the dead man as well as the > mourners? Or many others he took? Or directed the "Country Doctor" to cross that field under a brooding sky several times until it was just right. > room for both. Just as there are documentary films and creative (or > directed) films, one sees no reason why there should not be documentary > photography and creative (or directed) photography (the latter > obviously not most documentary films are directed and controlled to a great degree. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html