[Leica] integrity ?

[imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)]

Doesn't it really come down to whether the person doing the work, the  
photography, the writing, the filming has "integrity?"

For me: If I or some other photographer moves a coffee cup, or moves  
my body to avoid the visual distraction makes little difference. On  
the other hand if I move an empty booze bottle into a frame where I'm  
doing a story on a homeless person (and I have no idea if the bottle  
belongs or belonged to that person) I lack integrity in that move. At  
some level you have to trust what I'm doing. And I have to trust what  
you're doing. If it is discovered that we're moving things around,  
adding or subtracting things, to say something that we don't know to  
be true. Or worse, know to be false. Then you can't trust us.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Apr 18, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Chris Saganich wrote:

> I feel guilty when cropping an image for heavens sake, but not  
> moving things around before taking a shot, if I can.  What does it  
> matter either way?  Why should subtle changes in an image provoke  
> such anger?  It doesn't change the reality of whatever the  
> situation is, won't prevent millions from starvation or murder, not  
> likely to cause millions to be murdered, or starved.  May change  
> our perception about who we think we are. And what's more important  
> then that these days?  Perhaps we have become sensitive to having  
> our perceptions manipulated.  We should all go back and read Edward  
> Bernaise and Walter Lippman's   instructional works on propaganda  
> in a democracy.