Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> To argue that a documentary photographer is completely "objective"--and I > use that word in quotes for a reason--and that the presence of the person > has no effect on the situation being captured would be more than > disingenuous. This is not what Tina is saying, I know. The presence of an > observer is always going to have some influence on the situation, but a > really good documentarian will be able to reduce the impact of her/his > presence as much as possible. The other extreme is the photographer who > "poses" or arranges the subjects, or intrudes upon the subject/persons/etc. In general, many historians would prefer the family snapshot or vacation shot as an objective reporting of a scene or landscape than the skilled talents of a professional photographer. This issue has cropped up recently here at my work place (Unit for Digital Documentation). Daniel - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html