Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange present the truth - Bush presented a fiction.
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:15:11 -0700
 
Walker Evans was, of course, a photographer who worked in the documentary
style, not a documantary photographer.

Which isn't to say his photographs didn't and don't convey the truth about
something (or even facts). After all, poetry can and often does convey
truth.

tim

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