Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] Crazy
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:29:42 -0500
References: <159071.33929.qm@web111717.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

It says "Damon Runyon" because that's what the original Damon Runyon
portrayed.  But he wrote about actual scenes - in color with lots of people
milling around.  He didn't lie or misrepresent what he saw.  Neither did
this photographer.

Tina

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at 
yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> The contest photo says "Damon Runyon."  The reality of the actual event was
> "Family Circus."  And that is a gross misrepresentation.  It is a lie.
>
> Sure, all photos lie.  It's a favorite cliche and one that I pull out in my
> teaching all the time.  What we're really saying is that some degree of
> subjectivity is inevitable.  That's why we have standards to keep things
> under control.
>
> --John
>
>

-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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