Re: Re: Re: Re: A serious but strange short survey


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Posted by Rick Denney on September 01, 2002 at 22:08:55:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: A serious but strange short survey posted by Tom Mason on September 01, 2002 at 09:08:56:

Ansel Adams thought of the negative as a score and the print as a performance, and that both were required to make a photograph (or music).

ALL prints are manipulations of what's on the negative. No print holds more than about 70% of the dynamic range of luminance that is in a negative. How to map the 100% of the negative onto the 70% of the print always manipulates reality. And where the photographer chooses the point the camera is a manipulation of reality. That's why the forensic photos of which I'm sure you are familiar must be accompanied by sworn testimony as to their content and evidentiary authenticity before they can be submitted as evidence. Even then, they can be attached as being factual but still untruthful.

Rick "who thinks the assumption of truth is always dangerous" Denney


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