Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Picture alteration
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:24:42 +0100

Hmmm, the sports shots must have been 'interesting' ;-)

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of
LRZeitlin@aol.com
Sent: 01 August 2003 03:34
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Picture alteration


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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