Re: [Leica] Lying to subjects?

["Jeffrey Fass" <happy.eyeball@verizon.net>]

Well taken.

Cheers, Jeffrey

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From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Lying to subjects?


> Jeffrey -
> This is what I tell my students, and this is what is written down in their
> syllabus - which you may find at
> http://web.mit.edu/21w.749/www
>
> "...remember that there is one thing that you owe your subjects, be they
> your roommates or a group of developmentally disabled adults -
>
> Honesty: honesty in your vision; honesty in what you tell your subjects
> about your project and its purpose; honesty in your approach to your
> subject; and honesty in what you present to your viewers."
>
> B. D. Colen
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jeffrey
> Fass
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:38 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Lying to subjects?
>
>
> Hi to all,
>
> I preface this question by saying that I'm certainly not perfect, and
> "massage" the truth sometimes. I have chinks in my character like anyone
> else.
>
> At a restaurant last week, I went back into the kitchen to photograph the
> kitchen help. They were agreeable and posed for me. One of them asked "are
> you from a magazine?" Without thinking I said yes, and continued. First
> thought was maybe they're cooperating because they think that - if I told
> them I was just taking pictures for my PAW (they'd *never* understand
> that...<g>) then things would not go as well. Better to lock it down, so
to
> speak.
>
> What do others do in spontaneous, candid situations?
>
> Many TIA,
>
> Jeffrey F.
>
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