Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I completely agree. When I saw the unaltered photo the impression I got changed. Tina Manley wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > >