Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone
From: sam <sam@osheaven.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:26:27 -0500
References: <00fb01c3a409$d31fe690$6401a8c0@CCA4A5EF37E11E>

B.D. one of the important principles of photography (and life) is 
balance. Surely Fox and CBS cancel each other in the propagand department.

Sam S



B. D. Colen wrote:
> No, Tina, you're not being naive - you're sticking up for some very
> important principles. And when people stop sticking up for them
> photographs will no longer have any value as anything other than eye
> candy and propagand. It's bad enough that today the single most biased
> electronic media outlet declares itself to be "fair and balanced," but
> the day we start accepting the idea that it doesn't matter if we pose
> "news" and "documentary" photographs because, after all, we have a story
> to tell and posing helps us tell the story, we might as well all give
> up.


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