Posted by Rick Denney on September 01, 2002 at 22:23:28:
In Reply to: Re: A serious but strange short survey posted by Jim Andrada on September 01, 2002 at 13:19:43:
The debate has been especially sharp in the world of nature photography, which is really wildlife photography. Most people who buy a picture of wildlife photography want to see the animals in their native habitat. So, with wildlife photography, the photography has an implied obligation, it seems to me, to maintain journalistic principles. Art Wolfe published a book called "Migrations" that include digitally cloned animals in herds. That, to me, is over the line. But even Galen Rowell, the most famous nature photographer, will make an alteration here and there, and he is strongly and vocally anti-digital-manipulation.
But Ansel Adams eschewed the importance of content and insisted that photography was an art that should be judged as art and not as reportage. So, there is a line there, and the debate rages on about where it is.
Rick "searching for that line" Denney