Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This response to that same description of how to photograph a scene from war and conflict photogrpahic and teacher Lief Skoogfors puts it far better than I can > I have (I taught for too many years) told my students that they never > show reality, that photography is in fact abstract. Our linguistic > development, which allows us to take scratches on a paper, read them > into words, and unconsciously react to many of these scratchings into > translatable emotions is what has had many of us fooled into looking at > photographs as "reality". > > A photograph is as real as a sentence or paragraph written by a > journalist. It is, not an absolute, but from the very beginning an > interpretation of "reality". - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html