Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> When fiction comes to the party masquerading as fact, truth goes home > early. > > B. D. and > But, Phong, to write fiction and pass it off as true would be > just as wrong > as staging a documentary photograph. That's how several journalists have > gotten in trouble lately. There should be a definite line between truth > and fiction in writing just as there should be between staged and > documentary photographs. I think perhaps "There should be a definite line between truth and fiction in writing" might be better put as "...a line between fact and fiction"? Truth and fiction (in writing or in photography) are not really mutually exclusive - many a work of fiction or of art conveys more truth about an event or situation than all the available documentaries or journalism - whether those work's are "factually" accurate or not. Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother or Picasso's Guernica perhaps convey more truth about the dustbowl/depression and the Spanish Civil War than any number of news accounts - even though one was "directed/posed" and the other is obviously a work of artistic imagination - and neither may be factually completely correct or accurate. tim