Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/10

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Subject: [Leica] How about this one?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:18:14 +0530
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We can only look at documentary photography filtered through the eyes of
our own experience, but that, to me, is a very valid point of view.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote:

> Ted Grant wrote:
> >My job was to cover the event! Not make a journalistic statement or
> political
> justification one way or the other!
>
>
> I agree that that's the ideal posture from a news perspective, but I wonder
> how easy it is to keep your emotions and your seeing separate.  Here's a
> book that explores the question. I haven't read it yet but Errol Morris is
> a respected documentary filmmaker so I expect he's thought quite a bit
> about this.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Believing-Seeing-Observations-Mysteries-Photography/dp/1594203016/ref=pd_sim_b_4
>
>
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