[Leica] NYT Public Editor on Press Photography

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Interesting recommendation (labeling) as far as it goes.

OTOH, photography, drawing, writing and even hard science are all highly
selective human activities. 

Representations of reality are what they are - selective representations 
and
human produced artifacts.  So much of reality is always left on the cutting
room floor, cropped out, in the waste basket, a filing cabinet or a hard 
disk,
or simply never examined or represented in the first place.

That said, I don't think we need drop into extreme relativism or solipsism.
Photography is a wonderful and important medium whose strengths and
weaknesses stand up against most others.

Scott

Afterswift@aol.com wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I know very few on this list will read this post because of the holiday 
>weekend, but I think the following is on the nose article by the Public 
>Editor of 
>the NYT, Byron Calame. 
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/opinion/03publiceditor.html?hp=&pagewanted=p
>rint
>
>Best,
>bob rosen
>
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