2008/10/18 John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, that was someone else's initial comment.
Apologies. Wrong John. > My initial comment was "Tempest in a teapot"; and IIRC, something to the > effect "if you read the article, you'll see it's a painting, NOT A > PHOTOGRAPH". > > Because it's a painting, the artist is free to paint the subject in whatever > manner he pleases; with or without a cigarette. And, while the painting was > inspired by a photograph, no instance of that photograph has been produced > that shows the actress holding a cigarette. > > So what is the basis for claiming the government "sanitized" history? And > who is being revisionist? That's the second time you ask who's revisionist. What are you actually trying to imply by that? The government is not the only bad guy in town, either. > My argument is that if you're going to rail against the "guberment > sanitizing history", you should save that argument for an instance where the > government actually HAS sanitized history. Well the other John should probably thank you for speaking up on his behalf. > Show me where the cigarette is actually removed from the image to "sanitize > history"; to hide the fact that people used to smoke. > > I find the evidence underwhelmingly insufficient in the cases presented. You keep harping about _this case_ and _government_. So I will for the third and hopefully last time repeat that I withdrew my comments particular to this image and commended the work of the painter. In my previous post I also pointed out that both moralism and business-making as alternative culprits. You may change the title of the thread if that's what's needed to broaden the scope of our exchange. :-) I also presented a different case which definately _is_ a manipulated image; the photo of a certain Soviet leader at UN. I doubt very much that the _government_ was involved in that fix either; more likely the free press took some extra liberties to pretend they had a shot which they hadn't. Doesn't make it more right in my book. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
