On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:51:20AM +0100, AlunFoto scripsit: > A photograph is never more trustworthy than the photographer who took it.
Oh, the Great Blue Satan sodomize their nostrils with the frozen corpses of rats. Everybody lives in a construct their brain makes out of sensory impressions and history and an element of happenstance; it's not an objective reality. Truth is a statement of belief about the contents of that constructed reality. Facts are those things than can be repeatably agreed on without reference to any specific person or person's constructed reality. Even intent to deceive is not altogether improper; suspension of disbelief is a legitimate goal when you're trying to convey emotion. Doesn't matter if the facial expression in the picture title "Hope" was brought on by the smell of coffee, actual hope, or the fleeting awareness that the drugs were kicking in and the suicide should be successful. People take things based on the Pirate Rule -- AARR, for authority, apriority, repetition, and rigour. A photograph can get to all of those, but the photographer can never entirely predict what it's going to do, because the observer matters. To say the photographer is entirely responsible is too much; the observer owns their own head. To say that the photographer is never responsible is too much, too; they have intent and craft and striving in there, in whatever degree. The craft and the striving can get into the realm of facts; the intent and the art, if art there be, can't get there. And that's OK. -- Graydon The stone was dropped by the quarry-side, and the idle derrick swung, While each man talked of the aims of art, and each in an alien tongue. -- Rudyard Kipling, "The Conundrum of the Workshops" -- 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.
