Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] fired for photoshopping
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:56:38 -0800

Nope.... that would be a  completely fabricated image.  What we are talking
about in this particular image is the alteration of 2 frames, taken seconds
apart, into a single image.  No change of meaning, no change of reporting
point of view.  Different argument.

Suppose I had an image created on film, and I cropped out some element.
Some element like the guy who is holding the gun, shooting the brains out of
some Vietnamese  ( Cambodian?  I forget the specific details).....  He does
this in the darkroom, not in photoshop.  So the overal story is changed by
the ommission into a story of a person killed in battle rather than the icon
of cruelty.  This would be OK?

Omission is OK, but commission is not?

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net


If a photographer wants to create a 'phototorial,' or a photo
illustration, fine. Just label it as such.

Best

B. D.


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