Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: > taking vs making... > > <http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/making-images.shtml> Photography cannot convey truth; truth is a continuum of time and space while a photograph is a limited view of a fraction of time. Photography is an interpretation of truth that can convey understanding. Meyers' space probe data example is appropriate here because the data the probes relayed to earth had to be interpreted in order to be understood. In making an image Meyers is showing us how he interprets the scene in front of him, or how he understands it if you will. The photographer's task is to include in the picture the elements of truth that promote his understanding while excluding those elements of truth which are marginally useful (or distracting) to his understanding. IMHO there is no such thing as 'taking' a photograph because the photographer, in choosing a particular view or moment in time, is making decisions about how the photograph should look. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com