Re: Psychological Motives for Pursuing Photography

Jonathan Turner <pictures@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:38:23 +0100



    On this subject I would have to quote my all time hero; Richard
    Avedon;

    
    "A Portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is
    transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
    There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All
    photographs are accurate, none of them is the truth."

    
    And who could disagree with the master...?

    
    Jonathan.
    Jonathan Turner
      Photographer
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    On 01/09/2011 15:12, Jeff McSweeney - Creative Strategist wrote:
    
      
        By entering a scene the photographer, by her very
          presence, changes the truth.
        
          
            The use of a wide angle or telephoto lens, black
                & white or color, to lie down or stand on a ladder
                changes the truth.
            

            There is no such thing as a purely true image.
            

            For the sake of this discussion please share the
                image that carries the most truth to you.

              
            Jeff McSweeney
            jeffmcsweeney.com ~ jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

                
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              If truth is flexible then no form of society can
                function.  One man sees it as the absolute truth that he
                is entitled because of mistreatment to break that window
                and take a TV because of a past wrong.  The owner of the
                shop who paid for the tv will most certainly think he
                stole it.  FACT the first guy broke the window and took
                the TV.  That was the truth.  Neither perspective or
                opinion will change the fact he broke a window and took
                a tv.
              

              Capturing what is really there isn't that hard, but
                its also no more difficult to make a photograph lie. 
                With digital imaging its even easier.