> << This is actually one of the main points that I'd like to make: the photo > was in a fluffly impressionistic cultural piece on the theme of "romance > in Paris," in which a number of different photos of couples kissing in > the streets of Paris were included. <SNIP> > So, are you saying the whole piece was a sham? What of the other images in > the spread, were they staged as well? Perhaps the whole premise of "romance > in Paris" was fraudulent. It may have been a false notion cooked up by an > editor Actually, I wonder that too. I'd been brought to to believe "Paris was romantic". I've lost count of the number if times I have heard that phrase repeated ... When I've visited Paris I found it to be a city pretty much like any other in Europe ... The streets are busy, the buildings dirty, pigeons everywhere ... If people's perceptions of Paris being romatic stem from articles of fiction, founded on staged repportage, the prophesy can be self-fulfilling. If Paris really was that romantic and free a place ... why resort to staging the shots, and more particularly framing them to look as if they had been true decisive moments ... Bob
