Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tim, Save your paternalism for someone else. I know what you were talking about. And you dodged the question. Bob > > > > > Tim, > > > > You dismiss any attempt at saying you can't do something, like directing a > > documentary picture, as politically correct or puritan fundamentalism. > > > > Bob > > > > Bob - please read the posts so you understand what we were talking about. > > we were very specifically discussing the situation where a photojournalist > has had an award taken away because they used - in the digital realm - what > are very traditional tools that have been used been the darkroom by > photojournalists for generations - and accepted as completely ethical. > > Because there is now a fear that as everything is digital it's all "so easy > to do" (actually I don't quite know what the fear is) all of a sudden there > is a knee-jerk reaction against any kind of aesthetic adjustment at all to > the image. > > Tina's link explained this very specific issue well. > > The issue I raised of McCullin and Nachtwey dodging and burning the sky in a > photograph and then another photojournalist saying that was unacceptable > manipulation was what I was specifically referring to as the politically > correct or puritan fundamentalist photojournalistic "ethics" and was an > example of this knee-jerk idiocy - or as Pedro Meyer calls it - the fictions > of a "Code of Ethics" . > > read the link Tina posted - it pretty much explains it - that's what we were > specifically talking about. > > http://www.zonezero.com/editorial/octubre03/october.html > > tim > > > > PS - as for "directing" documentary photography - there's no real you can or > you can't - the fact is people do - it just depends what form of documentary > photography you are talking about... it's such a broad field (probably to > broad a field for the term to mean anything?). Mary Ellen Marks documentary > portraits? of course they are directed. But that was another thread > > -- > 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