Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
> reality and the representation, or imitation, of reality. It matters
> whether a picture is the real thing, or not.
>
No - all photographs are, ultimately, fictions.
Does it matter that Kertesz directed some of his pictures? The photograph of
two lovers kissing on a park bench is iconic - on postcards everywhere. Does
it matter that they were his friends, who were in love, who he asked to sit
on the bench and embrace. Or that Gary Winogrand - regarded by most to be
the "the" maestro of street photography - would "insert" his children in a
scene ("Go on in
> there and do something interesting.") as the picture needed just that one
additional thing for it to work.
Not in the least they are still as real - and as fictitious - as if they had
come across them by happenstance.
> It is the difference between
> reality and the representation, or imitation, of reality
it is surely a mistake to identify the thing photographed with the
photograph itself. They are two very different things. "A photograph is not
what was photographed, it's something else".
tim
- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html