Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, Do you mean to say that airbrushing inconvenient parts of images is acceptable? Or staging images and passing them off as spontaneous? These 'lies' have always been part and parcel of photography and photojournalism, especially when a propaganda machine is rolling. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:56 AM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com>wrote: > > But don't we do that with choice of film and processing, too? The actual > > scene would have been in color but we choose to portray it in B&W, with a > > particular lens, and processing - whether it's digital or film? > > It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography. He's created a lie. > > > http://bit.ly/bYEjtq > > --John > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >