Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/31

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Subject: [Leica] A photograph is was is
From: Afterswift at aol.com (Afterswift@aol.com)
Date: Thu Mar 31 10:13:49 2005
 
 
In a message dated 3/31/05 7:40:07 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
lug-request@leica-users.org writes:

>  photographer can be 100% honest and take pictures of something that is  
> staged (without him knowing). Where is the truth here? Who's  lying?

> Tarek



Then that is what you are photographing. A staged event. It's like that  
Russian doll or the multiple image you see when you're between two mirrors. 
That  
is the truth. The truth is the phony scene. That may fool the viewer, but it 
 
doesn't fool the documentary camera. 
Sure, the Nazis set up Thereisenstadt as a model camp to pass Red Cross  
inspection, but the camera could not be fooled. 
 
Bob