zondag, maart 07, 2004
David Hockney: With digital photography, the camera always lies
Digital photography means the camera always lies, leaving painting as the more truthful visual medium, says David Hockney, one of Britain's greatest living artists. Now resettled in his native Britain, Hockney says the advent of digital photography -- and the ease by which their images can be so easily manipulated by anyone with a computer -- has made him change his mind. "You've no need to believe a photograph made after a certain date because it won't be made the way Cartier-Bresson made his," he said, referring to the legendary French photojournalist.
"We know he didn't crop. He was the master of truthful photography," he told the Guardian newspaper. "But you can't have a photographer like that again because we know photographs can be made in different ways."
By way of example, Hockney cited an infamous Iraq war photo in the Los Angeles Times newspaper, made exciting by two images superimposed on a computer by the photographer, who was duly sacked. "They printed the two photographs with the story and fired him," Hockney recalled. "Why? Because he was not using photography as 'I was there and this happened in front of me'," he said. "A newspaper has to have that -- or think it does."
Lees het originele interview in The Guardian en de reacties op Hockney's uitspraken.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 10:30
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