The
pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Hockney on photography
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:29:38 -0500
His first statement:
"Hockney told the Guardi
On 4 Mar 2004 at 18:50, William Robb wrote:
> What is happening though, is that one can no longer trust a
> photograph to be a reflection of reality, no matter the motive of the
> photographer.
> As that moron boy at the LA times proved, it is just too easy to
> alter reality to suit ones own agen
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From: "Christian"
Subject: Re: Hockney on photography
> His first statement:
>
> "Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so
easily
> altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or
true."
>
photographer wants you to see and in the way
he/she
wants you to see it.
No photograph can be seen as "factual or true" not even snap shots
taken by
grandma.
Christian
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From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Mark Roberts"
Subject: Re: Hockney on photography
> To quote a noted PDML'er: "Why is photography the only art form for
> which some neurotics demand something called truth?" - Bob Blakely
>
> (The answer: Because they
Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm
What a pathetic load of twaddle. (I'm being polite here.)
First quotation is an outright falsehood: "...it won't be made the way
Cartier-Bresson made his. We know he didn't crop them."
Then he goes on wi
s you to see it.
No photograph can be seen as "factual or true" not even snap shots
taken by
grandma.
Christian
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Subject: Hockney on photography
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From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Hockney on photography
> Hi,
>
> on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview with David
> Hockney about the trustworthiness of photogra
And if he didn't his editors sure did. Actually, since he claims he never did
his own darkroom work, the statement that "he never cropped his photos" was true
even if every one was cropped by the lab technician.
Actually, photos have never been unmanipulated, even simple snapshots are at the
wh
Hi,
Bob W wrote:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm
>
> I agree with him about art photography, but, like Russell Roberts, I
> thought his arguments about factual photography were rather
> simplistic. Still, it's interesting to hear him, nevertheless.
Hockney's just p
Hi,
on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview with David
Hockney about the trustworthiness of photography. Here is an article
about it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm
I agree with him about art photography, but, like Russell Roberts, I
thought his argument
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