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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:35:45 -0500

For some reason "Heisenberg principle" has caught
on in vernacular English, even though is a difficult
scientific concept to grasp.

Some people believe Schrodinger's Cat is related
to, or even is, the Cheshire Cat.

- - Phong



Félix López de Maturana wrote:
>
> Though not being a professional photojournalist I don't feel concerned by
> the interaction between the photographer and his subjects and about the
> "truth" of a photography and I consider the approach of Tina as
> highly ethic
> but I cannot forget this statement of quantic physic researchers that have
> declared that "any" investigation of a subject, part of a atom,
> couldn't be
> true as the activity of the searcher always modified the thing observed.
>
> It seems to me that it is absolutely true about Photography. The
> presence of
> the photographer, be the author honest or not, always change the
> attitude of
> the men photographed. Excuse me, today my English is truly bad... (just an
> accident with my left biceps broken) but I think that this thread is
> fascinating!
>
> Felix

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