Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] some new snaps, a propos
From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 00:56:44 -0800

I don't see any proof that those things happened because the photographers
were there.

Or even that those are real photojournalists. I guess it's up to our trust
in your credibility that the photos you show the world portray what you
claim they do.

How can I believe them when you have an obvious agenda to prove that point
(that photographers influence anything they photograph), and you admit you
are willing to manipulate situations to say what you want, regardless of
whether the photos reflect reality or not? According to you, it makes no
difference.

Based on your arguments, I don't buy it. If those are real photographers I
have no reason to believe the situations they were covering wouldn't have
happened if they were there or not.

You say so? Well, excuse me for being skeptical anyway.

on 11/6/03 11:20 PM, Rob Appleby at rob@robertappleby.com wrote:

> Anyway, I have been meditating on all these issues quite a bit over the last
> year, and one of my major concerns now in my work is to show the distorting
> effect of the media and to integrate the presence of the photographer into
> the image. A first attempt at such:
> 
> http://robertappleby.com/images/new.pdf


Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.jphotog.com

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
that it has never tried to contact us.
 - Calvin and Hobbes

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