Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is too depressing. Removing the lady altered the truth of the photo. Period. It made Obama look isolated and alone. That was not the truth. This is a very slippery slope and we're sliding down it too fast. Tina On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > This has nothing to do with press freedom or Stalin or Hitler. Those > > dictators ORDERED an unfree press to delete people from photos. There is > no > > such control over the press in the USA or the UK and if a publication > alters > > a photo, its because THEY chose to, not because the government ordered > it. > > > > > > -- > > Chris Crawford > > Fine Art Photography > > Fort Wayne, Indiana > > 260-424-0897 > > > And the issue might be WHY did they choose to do so in our free press. > And the answer in this case is I think they wanted to communicate more > concisely and directly what was going and and what their story was. And > this > being the reality of magazine covers conceptualization from day one to now. > If they distorted the meaning of what as going on I'd take issue with that > but that lady being there or not being there did not change the story. It > just cluttered the image. > All they wanted was a more clean graphic. > > The other thing the editors didn't have to take out was the smell of dead > fish and the sound of the wind and 3D. > That a photograph contains some kind of "truth" is not an idea I'd like to > propagate. > There could have been an army of protesters just to the left simply not > include in the picture by the photographer. An army of trained seals. > A photograph is never the truth. Its ink on a piece of paper. > And the world as I know it does not consist of pieces of flat paper with > ink > on it. It's smell o-rama. And wide field 3d with sound. > Still photography is a very thin abstraction from reality. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com