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Subject: [Leica] How about this one?
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:24:48 -0700
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If you are shooting all the action going on around you and you are a true 
photojournalist intent on covering every element of the event, you don't 
even think about anything else but getting the best bloody images showing 
what's happening!     IT'S A NO BRAINER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO TAKE SIDES IF "YOU ARE COVERING THE EVENT!" with a 
neutral mind set!

How difficult is that to understand? Been in more than a few and I shot all 
the actions that I could see happening regardless of whomever it was! I was 
a recorder of the event..... not making any judgmental decisions!

ted !



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one?


> We can only look at documentary photography filtered through the eyes of
> our own experience, but that, to me, is a very valid point of view.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Ted Grant wrote:
>> >My job was to cover the event! Not make a journalistic statement or
>> political
>> justification one way or the other!
>>
>>
>> I agree that that's the ideal posture from a news perspective, but I 
>> wonder
>> how easy it is to keep your emotions and your seeing separate.  Here's a
>> book that explores the question. I haven't read it yet but Errol Morris 
>> is
>> a respected documentary filmmaker so I expect he's thought quite a bit
>> about this.
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Believing-Seeing-Observations-Mysteries-Photography/dp/1594203016/ref=pd_sim_b_4
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phil Swango
>> 307 Aliso Dr SE
>> Albuquerque, NM 87108
>> 505-262-4085
>>
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard) ([Leica] How about this one?)
In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] How about this one?)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] How about this one?)