Hi, Friday, August 6, 2004, 8:24:37 PM, Pål wrote:
> If you look at many of the price winning photograph in > photojournalism the only merrit seem to be showing something > terrible with no other artistic values. Photojournalism has nothing to do with artistic values, it is about reporting news in the most effective way possible. Any artistic value that photojournalism acquires is secondary. Claiming that photojournalism should have artistic values is like claiming that the written columns in your newspaper should be comparable with T S Eliot's poetry. > In this it has much in > common with hardcore pornography. Rubbish. -- Cheers, Bob