Re: Psychological Motives for Pursuing Photography

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I'm no geezer, that's Herschel! :)

On 9/2/11 6:16 AM, YGelmanPhoto wrote:
Sorry, folks, but this discussion is truly off the wall at this point. Maybe we could cut it off? Or, take it private.

With no offense implied, the discussion sounds like a couple of geezers yappin' it up. It's actually kind of funny.

And I know I'll get bad stuff thrown at me, but there it is.

  -yoram



On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Herschel Mair wrote:

Agreed at last - must you must consider that all photographs are presented out of context. A picture on a gallery wall could not be more out of context.

Herschel

On 9/1/11 1:33 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Thu, September 1, 2011 13:41, Herschel Mair wrote:
There you have it David:
I don't know what "purely true image" means. To a first approximation,
ALL camera-original images are "true".  (What they're not, IMHO, is
"complete".)
They are never COMPLETE truths and an incomplete truth, a selected
truth, a consciously manipulated truth - /IMHO/ is a lie. A man who
shows only the part of the scene that suits his own convictions is, by
virtue of exclusion, creating a lie, even without touching a single
pixel. That photograph is a lie. You can't leave it up to the viewer to
ask the right questions in order to get the whole truth.
Of course, and that's true when you present the photograph in a context
implying it's more than it is.  That's why "complete" is the key in my
reading of the situation.







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