Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]R. Clayton McKee wrote: >Quoth the Tina Manley : > > > >>Nobody will ever believe photographs again. >> >> >> > >Read the comments (if you can stomach them.) > >The viewers already don't believe photographs (which is probably >realistic, in today's publishing world) but, even more frightening, >the majority don't seem to care. Welcome to 1984, revised for the >marketing era. > > > Unfortunately this phenomenon is not new I'm afraid. Believing is by essence subjective. PR people and politicians know that better than others. For instance, what if I don't believe these are faked : http://www.lafabriquedelinfo.fr/component/content/article/133-lnles-journalistes-sont-victimes-du-mythe-de-la-photographie-qsans-retoucheqnr?showall=1 http://tinyurl.com/c3hr7y I'm absolutely confident the first one isn't, I can't tell you why. ;-) Now, if the result is what matters as we often state here, I wonder if the limits of 'post-production' are not all in the viewers' minds, and beliefs. On the other hand, a photograph being the result of a long personal and technical selection process, equating it with a truthful representation of what actually is or was, is simply a dramatic mistake. The rest of it is left open for beliefs, or ignorance. Amiti?s Philippe >-- > > >R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com >Photojournalist rcmckee at rcmckee.com >P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 >Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >