[Leica] Best known photo ?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 12:52 PM -0600 5/12/04, Tim Atherton wrote:
>  > 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
>

Well said, Tim!

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