Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Blurring??? The lines have been obliterated for decades and the so called main stream journalism is nothing but a corporate PR front. We all have to retreat into the world of "samizdat" to learn anything real about the world. The problem is 65% of Americans and our equally radical "enemies" are convinced art is the devils hand and ascension is achieved through mass murder. But that is OK as long as we keep Wall Street liquid. I would use Greenberg's photographs as an opportunity to mirror the insanity of the past 8 years not as "democratic policy gone awry" but as policy made by radical ideologues with narrow self-interests; a phenomenon that main stream journalism is incapable or unwilling to elucidate but one which artists can't resist. At 06:47 PM 9/16/2008, you wrote: >At 06:38 PM 9/16/2008, you wrote: >>Are your wedding pictures "neutral," or do you try to present your >>subjects in a special and positive manner? >> >>Total honesty might not go over all that well;^) >> >>Ric > > >Jill Greenberg calls herself the Manipulator on her own website. That's >fine for "art" but not so good for photojournalism. Patrick Schneider was >fired from the Charlotte Observer for increasing the saturation on a photo >of firemen fighting a fire. Jill Greenberg deliberately used unflattering >lighting and editing, even adding a monkey to a photo, to portray McCain >in a biased way. If she wants to do that for "art", that's her >prerogative, but it has no place on the cover of the Atlantic Monthly >unless they are covering her art exhibit. It's certainly not >photojournalism. There have been too many blurring of the lines lately >and this is the worst I've seen. > >Tina > >Tina Manley >www.tinamanley.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, M.S. Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049 "I am the radiation"