On 10/1/05, iddi <iddibhai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ignoring the staged rally organized by communist party line of thought,
> the primary reason this is interesting, to me, is how the image is
> drastically changed by cropping. Photographers have that option and can
> put it to good use at their discretion. A strong image, uncropped, becomes
> a strong image, but for the other side. Fascinating, regardless.
I certainly agree with you and didn't mean to suggest your motives for
posting this were any different. I was simply pointing out how the
author was just as guilty at manipulating the "truth" with his images
as the photographer of the news article was.
Your intent seems to have been to be much more along the line of
simply examining how the different cropping can change the way you
perceive an image. I think you've provided a good example of that in
the article. But the author of the article seems more concerned with
saying that his photographs give you the "whole story" when they're
just as lacking as the one from the newspaper.
How about a less politically charged example of how we do this? For my
colour photo class that I took in the summer I printed a number of
photographs from my travels in Vietnam. My teacher liked my stuff but
one criticism he had was that he knew that Vietnam was a very crowded
country but that none of my shots conveyed that reality. My shots all
portrayed very quiet scenes that seemed very serene and contemplative.
This is a fairly accurate indication of the process I went through and
part of the emotion I was feeling when taking the shots but that is
not the reality of what you see 90% of the time in Vietnam. In terms
of presenting what Vietnam is like I was only presenting a very small
portion of it. By omitting the rest my "lie of omission" is to suggest
that all of Vietnam is like that instead of just a small portion.
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