Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Picture alteration
From: LRZeitlin@aol.com
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:33:51 EDT

The extreme case:

As a young photojournalist, I worked for a photo editor who told me he would 
never publish a picture taken with anything but a "normal" lens unless it was 
absolutely necessary.  He believed that the role of the photographer was 
transport the reader to the location in which the event occured and present the 
scene as if it could be directly viewed. The camera was the reader's eyeball 
surrogate. Any perspective distortion was editorializing, an unforgivable sin in 
newspaper work.

Larry Z

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