Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As usual you start out right on the point, with what seems like a very reasonable argument, and then you divert and set up the straw men and knock him down. What is specious is your argument that professional ethics is not valid. That's the argument of the unethical at worst. Sophistry at best. I know plenty of photojournalists who haven't sold out. And your unwillingness to admit that their approach is one legitimate approach amongst many shows you have a lot to learn. on 11/7/03 12:36 AM, Rob Appleby at rob@robertappleby.com wrote: > The tools we already have are perfectly suited to doing honest and truthful > work (again, I use those words in a non-platonic sense). This requires a > critical awareness of what we are doing and, I more and more think, making > the method itself a visible (or at least apprehendable) part of the outcome. > This would seem to me to be a way of moving beyond or at least pre-empting > such specious paradigms as the "professional ethics" one, which is simply a > tool for sale to the highest bidder. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "Where books are burned in the end people will burned, too." Heinrich Heine - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html