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08/23/2004 01:43:37 AM · #1 |
This article was in our paper today, I thought it was interesting considering the "digital art" discussion that have been floating around.
Pics of Antartic explorer faked
A little bit of the article:
The original full-plate glass negative is stored at Canberra's National Library. The catalogue note records that in 1916, Hurley used it "with clouds in composite" to produce a gelatin print.
Hurley's habit of improving on history, which has provoked comment since he tangled with the World War I historian Charles Bean in 1918, will be highlighted by an Australian film to be shown on BBC television tonight....
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08/23/2004 04:16:51 AM · #2 |
Am I the only one that finds it terribly poetic that the author, by choosing words like 'faked', is doing exactly the same thing she is accusing him of -- affecting a specific desired effect on the audience.
He was, as he stated, attempting to capture the essence of something that does not occur in a single instant of time. He may have been able to stage a single instant that portrayed what he wished to display, but that would have been just as 'fake'.
The whole idea of photo-journalism capturing the event as-is, just seems so pointless to me -- not to mention impossible. After all, the photographer determines how the event is to be conveyed, if in no other way than by deciding what is worth pointing his camera at.
David
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08/23/2004 04:19:37 AM · #3 |
I like the fact that they only way they know this is because the photographer himself was quite open about it. He obvouisly conveyed the right feelings with the original photos or they wouldn't have survived long enough for people to discuss like this.
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