[Leica] integrity ?

[lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)]

But would you move something in the foreground? Say a cup on a table that
was cluttering the image. I know I've moved rubbish bins in the past to get
a shot :-), but then I'd never claim to be a documentary shooter, just a
part time snapper.

Steve


On 18/4/07 01:39, "Tina Manley" <images@comporium.net> wrote:


> 
> What do you think?  Does previsualization mean that the photograph
> was manipulated subconsciously?  I don't think so. I might imagine a
> photo that I would like to take of a family in Central America, but
> that would only mean that I would only look for situations to take
> that photo.  I would never move people into position or change
> circumstances to make the photo happen when it wouldn't have without
> my being there.  Moving people into position or suggesting situations
> or adding lights or manipulating photographs in the darkroom goes way
> beyond previsualization, to me, and would not be acceptable for
> documentary or news photographs.  I think many so-called documentary
> photographs today should be reclassified as art photographs if the
> situations were manipulated or directed by the photographer.  That is
> not documentary or news photography.