On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:14:40PM +0200, AlunFoto wrote: > Yep, that's mankind although it's not photography. > Photography is special, though, having been toted as representing the > "objective truth" independent of the rulers. The fourth power of > state, and the whole genere of documentary photography, relies on its > credibility. As does photographic evidence in court proceedings,
That's a commonly-held misconception. Photographs are not evidence per se, unless there is a human being prepared to swear that the photograph shows a true and accurate representation of the scene. So, in fact, court proceedings automatically consider photographs not to be credible - they are merely an aide-memoire. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
