Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Having covered Labor for more than a dozen years now, I see the same ritualistic formalism to their events. I can never get the perception out of mind on how choreographed much of it is. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: Re: [Leica] some new snaps, a propos >Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 1:32 AM > > I don't think that was exactly the point I was making, but anyway. > > After spending quite a while in Palestine over the last couple of years, I > began to see the whole thing as largely a show, in which the soldiers, > palestinian civilians, settlers and even the media play their parts. But by > this I don't mean anything as crude as that they consciously set up > situations. I think you have to have seen the way stonethrowing, curfew, > stopping kids going to school etc etc works, to appreciate the ritualistic, > theatrical atmosphere of the whole, and this is what interests me and what I > am trying to express in these images. The particular presentation is > intended to emphasise the pictureness of the pictures, so to speak. > > -- Rob > > http://www.robertappleby.com > Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 > Home: (+39) 0536 63001 > > All outgoing email scanned by > Norton AntiVirus (TM) 2003 Professional Edition. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Welch" <eric@jphotog.com> > To: "Leicalist" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 9:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] some new snaps, a propos > > >> I don't see any proof that those things happened because the photographers >> were there. >> >> Or even that those are real photojournalists. I guess it's up to our trust >> in your credibility that the photos you show the world portray what you >> claim they do. >> >> How can I believe them when you have an obvious agenda to prove that point >> (that photographers influence anything they photograph), and you admit you >> are willing to manipulate situations to say what you want, regardless of >> whether the photos reflect reality or not? According to you, it makes no >> difference. >> >> Based on your arguments, I don't buy it. If those are real photographers I >> have no reason to believe the situations they were covering wouldn't have >> happened if they were there or not. >> >> You say so? Well, excuse me for being skeptical anyway. >> >> on 11/6/03 11:20 PM, Rob Appleby at rob@robertappleby.com wrote: >> >> > Anyway, I have been meditating on all these issues quite a bit over the > last >> > year, and one of my major concerns now in my work is to show the > distorting >> > effect of the media and to integrate the presence of the photographer > into >> > the image. A first attempt at such: >> > >> > http://robertappleby.com/images/new.pdf >> >> >> Eric Welch >> Carlsbad, CA >> http://www.jphotog.com >> >> The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is >> that it has never tried to contact us. >> - Calvin and Hobbes >> >> -- >> 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html