Graydon, I wrote about _trust_, not truth. Trust is the thing that builds a bridge of consensus between our individual perceptions of reality, isn't it? :-)
Jostein 2009/3/12 Graydon <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
