From: Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Hockney on photography
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:29:38 -0500
His first statement:
Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily
altered these days that they can no longer be seen
Hi,
on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview with David
Hockney about the trustworthiness of photography. Here is an article
about it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm
I agree with him about art photography, but, like Russell Roberts, I
thought his
Hi,
Bob W wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm
I agree with him about art photography, but, like Russell Roberts, I
thought his arguments about factual photography were rather
simplistic. Still, it's interesting to hear him, nevertheless.
Hockney's just plain
And if he didn't his editors sure did. Actually, since he claims he never did
his own darkroom work, the statement that he never cropped his photos was true
even if every one was cropped by the lab technician.
Actually, photos have never been unmanipulated, even simple snapshots are at the
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Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Hockney on photography
Hi,
on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview with David
Hockney about the trustworthiness of photography. Here is an article
about it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts
can be seen as factual or true not even snap shots
taken by
grandma.
Christian
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From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Hockney on photography
Hi,
on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview
Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm
What a pathetic load of twaddle. (I'm being polite here.)
First quotation is an outright falsehood: ...it won't be made the way
Cartier-Bresson made his. We know he didn't crop them.
Then he goes on with
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From: Mark Roberts
Subject: Re: Hockney on photography
To quote a noted PDML'er: Why is photography the only art form for
which some neurotics demand something called truth? - Bob Blakely
(The answer: Because they're neurotic, elitist and more than a
little
he/she
wants you to see it.
No photograph can be seen as factual or true not even snap shots
taken by
grandma.
Christian
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From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Hockney on photography
Hi,
on my home from
- Original Message -
From: Christian
Subject: Re: Hockney on photography
His first statement:
Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so
easily
altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or
true.
is crap!
I've said it before and I'll
On 4 Mar 2004 at 18:50, William Robb wrote:
What is happening though, is that one can no longer trust a
photograph to be a reflection of reality, no matter the motive of the
photographer.
As that moron boy at the LA times proved, it is just too easy to
alter reality to suit ones own agenda.
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