We have already known that newspapers for reading. However most of people prefer to glance at just photographs rather than reading in detail. (Maybe they take the easy way out.) Thus, to be reflecting the truth news and to be understood them clearly, photographs should be very objective. In my view, news' detail can be distorted or changed according to writer but photographs can be quite clear to explain the event. I like the way that photographer Kent Gavin explains ideas about professionalism: ' I consider my camera to be a window through which the public can look at the world. Sometimes they will be entertained, sometimes they will be horrified and provoked into action some kind...' and I think this window or camera lenses liken to represent our eyes even we are not where the event occupying. They should not be very pink or very black. It only shows us what the real is.
This is very interesting, Meltem. But don't you think that when Gavin describes his camera as a "window", he is saying his photographs are subjective? A window cannot capture all of reality, so can it ever really be objective? And what about the photographer's decision to frame one part of reality, but not another?
ReplyDeleteYes,Sonja I think I missed that part. Maybe 'window' represent Gavin's point of view.Photgraphers have chance to ignore some part of the picture and at this point we couldn't say they are objective.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think that's probably a more accurate interpretation. :)
ReplyDeleteAlthough photographer is not objective,thanks for sharing Meltem, :p being non-objective is his or her fault, not yours :))
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