Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<In the heyday of Life etc, many many photographs were "set-up", in the sense that people were directed or posed (as they still are in much TV journalism) or negatives worked on by skilled re-touchers to improve the image (outside the "journalistic" area>> This tradition goes back to the dawn of photography. Many of the "day after" pictures of the battle of Gettysburg 1n 1863 were posed with actors playing the parts of dead and wounded. In pictures of the carnage at Devil's Den, the same bodies appear in different poses, some being mysteriously resurected between shots. Don't confuse police crime scene photos with newspaper or journalisitc photos. Police photos, film or digital, are intended to record the often mundane facts of the crime scene and must be accompanied by affidavits attesting to chain of possession and absence of alteration before being accepted into evidence. Newspaper photos are intended to startle the reader. Anything goes as long as doesn't outright lie or alter the facts - or at least so said my former editor. Larry Z - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html